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PROSPERITY 

Through the Knowledge and Power of Mind 



LECTURES AND MENTAL 
TREATMENTS 

Delivered in London, New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles 
In the years between 1900 and 1913 

BY 

ANNIE RIX MILITZ 

AUTHOR OF 

Christian Living and Healing, Sermon on the Mount, 
Spiritual Housekeeping, etc. 



Thou shalt remember the Lord thy God: for it is he 
that giveth thee power to get wealth. — Deut. 8:18. 



THE MASTER MIND PUBLISHING CO. 

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LOS ANGELES, CAL., U. S. A 

1913 






Copyrighted 1913 

by 

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CONTENTS 



Parti 

Page 

FOREWORD 6 

Chap. 

I. PROSPERITY THROUGH SPIRITUALITY - - 9 

II. THE MAGIC OF MEEKNESS 19 

III. CONFIDENCE THROUGH KNOWLEDGE OF TRUTH - 29 

IV. INSPIRATION IN WORK 37 

V. FREEDOM FROM DEBT 45 

VI. THE RICH MENTALITY 53 

Part II 

EXPLANATORY 63 

Chap. 

VII. IN THE QUIET OF THE HOME .... 65 

Treatment I. THE HIGHROAD OF PROSPERITY - - 66 

VIII. PROSPERITY BEGINS AT HOME .... 69 

Treatment II. RICHES THE GIFT OF GOD - - - 70 

IX. THE HOME REFURNISHED 73 

Treatment III. BLESS, PRAISE, GIVE THANKS - - 74 

X. OUR UNLIMITED CAPACITY - ... 77 

Treatment IV. " MY CUP RUNNETH OVER " - - 79 

XI. THE AGE OF MIRACLES STILL HERE - 82 

Treatment V. GODLINESS, THE SUBSTANCE OF RICHES 85 

XII. JESUS CHRIST IN THE BUSINESS MAN - 89 

Treatment VI CHRIST IN ME, MY PROSPERING POWER 91 



FOREWORD 



This hand-book of PROSPERITY was written from 
the basis, that thought is a substantial influence in the 
world like electricity, steam, heat and light. That man 
can control, direct, transform and dissipate his thoughts 
in the same way that he manipulates the forces that are 
evident to his five senses. 

If the man who takes this book has studied psy- 
chology and metaphysics from this viewpoint, he doubt- 
less has had proof of this thought-power. If he has 
not, then let him approach this book with a fair mind 
willing to investigate and not to judge until all the evi- 
dence is in, and a thorough trial has been given to the 
practices and applications, recommended. 

In many cases, the simple perusal of the book will 
be sufficient to bring about a marked change for the 
better in one's affairs. 

But the most earnest desire of the Author is, not 
that one shall be merely prospered in his worldly affairs 
by this volume, but that the little book shall prove the 
door of a new life. And that the reader shall go on, 
studying other works, of like nature, until he knows all 
the joy and freedom, that have come to the many, who 
have found their peace and happiness by living the 
principles, that are here upheld. 

The Author will always be glad to hear from those 
who have been benefited by these teachings. 

Los Angeles, Cal. A.R.M. 

Easter, 1913. 



Part I 
Principles and Practice 



PROSPERITY 

The Power of Right Thinking to Bring Success 

I. 
Prosperity and Spirituality. 

"Both riches and honor come of thee and thou reignest 
over all; and in thine hand is power and might and in thine 
hand it is to make great and to give strength unto all." — IChron. 
29:12. 

It is now established in the minds of many people 
that health of body is a legitimate result of spiritual 
knowledge, and eventually will be one of the signs of 
a practical follower of Christ, but these same ardent 
believers, many of them, find it difficult to believe that 
health of circumstances can be demonstrated in the same 
way, and is as legitimate and true a sign of the under- 
standing of spiritual law, as the healing of the body. 

Approaching the subject of riches with a fair un- 
prejudiced mind, we shall understand why it is, that they 
have been largely in the possession of the unspiritual, 
instead of the children of God, to whom the heritage 
rightfully belongs. 

Worldly riches have been feared, despised, con- 
demned and even hated by spiritual aspirants, because 
of ignorance of how to be in them, and yet not of them — 
to possess them, and not be possessed by them. Doubt- 
less this attitude is less deceiving than the other error: 
greed, worship and the fear of losing riches. But the 
really Wise avoid both attitudes through knowing w r orld- 
wealth to be but a reflection of the real riches, which 
must be sought first, last and always. Having found the 
richness of heaven you cannot escape the richness of 
earth unless you purposely repudiate it. 

The rich state of being is The Promised Land that 



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belongs to the people of God. Its occupancy by the 
selfish and carnal is like the Hittites, Canaanites, etc., pos- 
sessing The Promised Land, at the time the Israelites 
began their march, under Moses, out of Egypt to regain 
their own country. The land according to the spiritual 
spies (Num. 13) was most desirable, a land flowing with 
milk and honey, a land of the olive and the vine. This 
innocent land was sweet and pure and goodly even 
though exploited by the heathen. So are worldly riches, 
impersonal, good, useful, commanding the world's re- 
spect. 

Let us be true and not despise that which shadows 
a divine blessing, nor yet, on the other hand, lust for 
that which is not the real riches, for "how hardly do 
they that trust in riches enter the kingdom of heaven!" 
a saying that applies to the eager, anxious poor, as well 
as the besotted rich. It is not money itself that is the 
root of all evil — money is nothing of itself but a symbol. 
It is the love of money that makes the terrible trouble in 
families and between friends, and spoils the candidate 
for spiritual powers and illumination. 

The first step in prosperous attainment is to have 
the right attitude of mind and heart towards world- 
wealth. To see that prosperity and spirituality must be 
wedded here upon the earth and Man must be the word 
that makes the marriage. 

Too long has prosperity been looked upon as ma- 
terial and carnal, like the untrue wife described in Hosea 
II. Forgetting the source of her riches, "she did not 
know that I gave her corn and wine and oil and multi- 
plied her silver and gold" — a Dame Fortune, the scarlet 
woman, fickle and false. 

Too long has spirituality like an austere monk, 
ascetic, condemnatory, impractical and exclusive, repudi- 
ated her and not known "whom God hath joined" man 
cannot keep asunder. That old spirituality is dead — all 
hail to the New, that does not put off the kingdom of 



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heaven to a state after death, but realizes that, here and 
now, is the place and time for the riches of the kingdom 
to be made manifest. 

Man, like an officiating priest, marries these that 
have seemed two, and even in opposition, by (1) believ- 
ing in their union, (2) by revealing their true character. 
Prosperity is spiritual, and Spirituality prospers. 

Prosperity is of God, like Life, Health and Strength. 
It is man's privilege to use these divine gifts as he wills ; 
he may use his strength to knock another down; he may 
use his health to impose his appetites on others, but these 
uses do not lessen the fact that strength and health are 
the gifts of God. 

Man may misuse his prosperity, may ascribe it to 
sources, dishonest and selfish, but those are his mis- 
takes — the truth is still that that which is universally 
good in itself is of like origin, the Good, and prosperity 
originates with the All-Prosperous One, who makes all 
things good and very good and never knows failure. 

There is not one good that man pursues but, when 
regarded in its purity and from the highest viewpoint, 
cannot be identified with God. "I am the Lord thy God 
which brought thee out of the . . . house of bond- 
age" (Ex. 20:2). I am the Lord your Good that de- 
livered you from that great trouble, that saved you from 
that mistake, failure, or other liability — the evil that 
beset you. 

Prosperity is the presence of God. It is that expres- 
sion of comfort, power, beauty and freedom, that is 
always associated with the kingdom of heaven, and when- 
ever the advent of the Christ-reign is described, the 
language of earthly richness is used, and the scriptures 
teem with heavenly attributes and comparisons, drawn 
from the prosperous things and men of the world. 

Identifying Prosperity with God, we see this to be 
the truth of its being: that it is omnipresent and uni- 
versal. Being everywhere, one does not need to go from 



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place to place to get it. Find it within. Then you carry 
it with you — you are yourself prosperity. Like Whit- 
man you can say "I seek not fortune, I myself am good 
fortune." You find it in the business you have now, 
you fulfill the promise declared of him who delights "in 
the law of the Lord and in his law doth he meditate 
day and night . . . whatsoever he doeth shall pros- 
per." (Ps. 1:2, 3.) 

Being universal, the prosperity that is one with God 
expresses itself in everything and through everyone. It 
manifests in your life as general good luck. All the 
kingdoms of the world yield their best to you. In the 
vegetable kingdom your plants are healthy, your crops 
are abundant and not subject to drought, frost, pest, or 
blight; in the mineral kingdom, the gold and silver, 
the treasures in the rocks: diamonds, coal and oil are 
uncovered to you; in the animal kingdom, your cattle 
increase and keep in fine condition; in the kingdom of 
man, you are magnetic, blessed with friends, initiative, 
executive, efficient. 

Prosperity, seen to be one with God, is not temporal 
and changeable. It is eternal. It is not limited in its 
expression. It is manifest not only in the ordinary ways 
of the world, but also it includes prosperity in health 
and in strength, in honors and in pleasures, in love and 
in learning. 

The prosperity of the worldly-minded has the pro- 
verbial wings, and always there is a skeleton at the 
feast of the unprincipled and ignorant rich. How super- 
stitious they are! They build fine houses and dare not 
move into them, because forsooth! rich men have died 
on being snugly settled in new houses! How fearful 
they are of competitors ! How discontent with the amount 
they have! How little hold they have upon health and 
life and their loved ones ! Riches without spirituality 
are Dead Sea fruit. The substance and lasting joy of 
riches is knowledge of Truth. 



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Let us return to the statement that spirituality pros- 
pers one and consider how it does so. First, it gives 
insight into human character, so that one knows with 
whom to associate in business, what are the things that 
men want, how to please. Second, it inspires confidence 
within, and invites the confidence of others in us. Third, 
it increases the fellowship feeling, gives a lively interest 
in the welfare of even strangers, making one magnetic. 
Fourth, it gives a clear head, sober judgment, common 
sense. Jjith, it gives poise, and trust as to the future. 
These are a few of the reasons, others will be disclosed 
as we pursue the subject. 

Good luck is not a thing of chance. It is not a 
fatality, nor a matter of our stars or our karma, but its 
cause lies in a law, fulfilled either consciously or un- 
consciously, the latter with most people, the former with 
the enlightened. 

One of these laws is Acknowledgment of the Real 
Source of our fortune. This law was fulfilled by Abra- 
ham, who would not receive anything from the king of 
Sodom, "even to a shoelatchet and that I will not take 
anything that is thine, lest thou shouldst say, I have made 
Abram rich" (Gen. 14:23) and this law was enjoined 
strictly upon all the Hebrews. For the tendency of 
the mortal is to ascribe his success to his own skill or 
labor, foresight or energy, forgetting that even these are 
gifts of God, and that they are being applied daily by 
others, but without success. 

Our God dwells within us, our real I AM. It is 
likewise the I AM of everyone else, and cannot be claimed 
by any mortal ego as his exclusively. It is the same One 
in us today, that spoke to the ancient Israelites, and now 
gives us warning of the way to be eternally prosperous, 
that 

"When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt 
bless the Lord thy God for the good land which he hath 
given thee. 



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Beware that thou forget not the Lord thy God, in 
not keeping his commandments. 

Lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast 
built goodly houses, and dwelt therein; 

And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and 
thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou 
hast is multiplied; 

Then thine heart be lifted up and thou forget the 
Lord thy God, 

And thou say in thine heart, My power and the 
might of mine hand hath gotten me this wealth. 

But thou shalt remember the Lord thy God; for it 
is he that giveth thee power to get wealth." Deut. 8:10- 
14, 17, 18. 

Cultivating an intimate communion with the divine 
I AM within us, we are led from one expression of pros- 
perity to another, along a sure road whose every step 
is scientific and inspired. This inner guide is called the 
Holy Spirit by Jesus Christ, again the Spirit of Truth 
and the Comforter. It is impersonal and universal, and 
yet, its Voice can be heard unmistakably by those who 
will not give it a personal cast (as when it is called 
"spirits" — what tricks and folly, and even outrages, have 
been perpetrated in such delusion!) nor ignore its great 
commandments, given through the prophets. 

This inner Guide has been called by a variety of 
names such as "something in me," "my impression," in- 
tuition, business sense and even it has been called the 
"prosperity-microbe" by a well known American wit, who 
says that he never could be rich because he never had 
had the "microbe." That once, many years ago when 
Bell, the telephone inventor, was first placing his stock 
on the market, he saw that it was a good investment. 
He therefore drew out all he had in the bank — it was 
only $30,000 — and was on his way to buy preferred Bell 
Telephone shares, when he was met by an officious friend, 
who laughed scornfully at his simplicity and persuaded 



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him to return with his money- to the bank. "And so I 
just escaped being a multi-millionaire, because I did not 
have the microbe" he mournfully concluded. He had 
it, but did not know Its Name and nature. 

A young Chicago broker, who enjoyed an ephemeral 
Napoleonic flight among the bulls and bears on the 
Exchange, was besieged to give his secret of knowing 
when and how much to buy, and sell, that was making 
him such a phenomenal success. He confessed that it 
was no exact system that he could define, but impressions, 
"Something in me prompts me to do it and it is irresist- 
ible!" he said. But his power was of short duration, 
for he did not know that it was the Holy Spirit, and 
therefore he did not seek knowledge of it, so as to know 
when to abandon those foolish pawns, which are nothing 
to the Spirit that chooses the nobler instruments of men's 
hearts and minds, instead of stocks and bonds. When 
ethical laws are ignored and crossed, no ordinary illumi- 
nation can keep the novice in spiritual powers from mak- 
ing a failure. 

It is possible to ascend great heights of success, under 
the tutelage of the Holy Spirit, and never become falsely 
entangled with the moral law, as witness one beautiful 
character, who was led to the discovery of remarkable 
mines in Wisconsin, and to establishing a beautiful home 
in one of the most favored spots in California, where she 
had a chapel and healed many sick people. She heard 
the inner Voice from her youth and, like Abraham, she 
had been assured from the beginning, that if she were 
obedient to all its instructions, that great riches would be 
hers and, like Abraham, when she became rich she ac- 
knowledged the One Spirit, Lord God of the whole earth, 
as the Source of her prosperity. I refer to Mrs. Chyno- 
weth of Edenvale near San Jose, who published a most 
interesting paper for years, describing her wonderful, 
indeed thrilling, and romantic guidance and protection by 
the Spirit. 



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Settling it in one's heart that the law which the 
Master gave, "Seek ye first the kingdom of God and 
his righteousness and all these things after which the 
nations seek shall be added" is sound, scientific counsel 
for the establishment of eternal prosperity, let us proceed 
to fulfill the injunction. And let us, early in the pursuit, 
strictly regard that First. So shall we discover that, in 
a new sense, shall the "First be the Last," in that, to 
seek first the kingdom of God truly, we must make it our 
last or final search, and our only pursuit. 

This means that we are not in Truth for its per- 
quisites but for Itself. It means a certain indifference 
to "the things added," even to a carelessness as to how 
long they seem in coming, utter disregard whether they 
ever come — such is the paradoxical state of mind of one, 
who knows such riches inevitable. 

Meditate daily upon the pure Being of God, both 
under the name of Prosperity and under all the other 
names, as one with Prosperity: 

GOD IS 
i. Prosperity. 5. Life. 9. Peace. 

2. Omnipresence. 6. Health. 10. Purity. 

3. Omnipotence. 7. Love. 11. Faith. 

4. The Good. 8. Wisdom. 12. Truth. 

ALL ONE. 

Copy the above upon a card, to be put in some con- 
venient place for ready reference. 

Begin some definite practices as follows : 

I. Keep a handy little note-book, to jot down help- 
ful thoughts, original and otherwise. 

II. Identify Prosperity (1) with all the other names 
of God (2) to (12) not all at once but from time to 
time and watch what masterful thoughts will arise. Thus 
we reason: Since God is Prosperity (1) and God is 
Omnipresence (2) therefore Prosperity is Omnipresence, 



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that is, prosperity is everywhere, in all I meet, in my 
business, in whatever I put my hand to. I do not need 
to move from place to place. Yet I can go and pros- 
perity will follow me. Everything and everybody pros- 
pers me. 

Since God is Prosperity (1) and God is Omni- 
potence (3) Prosperity is Omnipotence, my prosperity 
is all-powerful, even though it seem but a grain of mus- 
tard seed, yet it can move mountains. Nothing can keep 
it from me. It prospers itself. Nothing succeeds so like 
success. 

Since God is Prosperity and God is the Good (4) 
therefore Prosperity is the Good, that is, in the Highest, 
prosperity will bring me good only. It will not bring 
me pride or folly. It will not mislead me or make me 
unspiritual. True prosperity prospers others, being of 
the same nature as the one who makes two blades of 
grass grow where only one grew T before. My pros- 
perity benefits my neighbor — it is not parasitical, it is 
the presence of God. 

Since God is Prosperity (1) and God is Life (5) 
Prosperity is Life, that is, there is life through my affairs. 
There is no waiting for the death of any thing or any 
one to bring me prosperity. 

Prosperity (1) is one with Health (6), that is, there 
is no exhaustion of vitality and energy in bringing pros- 
perity. Prosperity (1) is one with Love (7). In the 
Highest, universal unchangeable love, not selfishness and 
greed, is the key to prosperity. 

Reason in this way ad libitum, always taking each 
name in its highest, ideal meaning. 

III. Combine Omnipresence (2) with every one 
that follows from (3) to (12). 

IV. Combine Omnipotence (3) with each that fol- 
lows from (4) to (12). And so go through the list. 

What is here recommended is a practice, that has 
ever been given by spiritual teachers from the most 



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ancient Oriental times, and especially endorsed by Jesus 
Christ in his words "Watch and pray always," and his 
direction, "that men ought always to pray and never to 
faint." 

If the Orientals thought prayer always meant a 
beseeching and asking for something, then Paul would 
never have given the instruction "Pray without ceasing/' 
He knew that it meant communion with the omnipresent 
One, our Life and Very Self, and a communication of the 
vital blessed gifts of God. 

The worldly-wise man who grows rich, thinks money, 
prices, property, ways and means, devices, night and day, 
for a prosperity that is but as a breath of wind. The 
man who would know eternal prosperity thinks God, night 
and day, until he sees and knows nought else but that one 
supreme blissful presence. 



II. 

The Magic of Meekness. 

"Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth. " 
— Matt, 5:5. "Happy are the dispassionate: for they shall 
inherit the earth. " [Another Translation], 

When abstinence from theft in mind [envy and covet- 
ousness\ and act is complete in the devotee, he has power to 
obtain all material wealth." — Yoga Aphorisms of Patanj all. 

We have long been willing to acknowledge the power- 
ful place that mind occupies in our affairs, that is, through 
its objective phases, not subjectively. Men point to inven- 
tions and arts, writings and buildings, business and sci- 
ence, as the noble fruits of man's intellect, and the 
necessary means, with other externalized thoughts, by 
which mind influences the world. But to think that 
there is a way for thought to work more directly upon 
these outer affairs is as difficult for some, as it would 
have been once for one to believe that an electric current 
could be used without a conductor, definitely placed by 
the hands of man. Just as the Marconi telegrams do 
have conductors, though invisible to men's eyes, so 
thought-force is conducted and applied, though the ave- 
nues are still unsensed by mortal man. 

Science is slowly working with thought, experi- 
menting and collecting data. And certain ones in the van 
can hardly restrain themselves from publishing their own 
convictions, that thoughts can be felt and measured, ana- 
lyzed and described, as heat and electricity have been, 
by their effects. But science is conservative. It is philo- 



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sophy, now 'beginning to acknowledge intuition as a 
factor in acquiring knowledge, that will keep men abreast 
of the times, and be the best handmaiden of the new r 
thought and theology, whose influence can no longer be 
denied. 

Sufficient for us, that all over the world men and 
women are proving that thoughts are the greatest means 
and substance upon the whole earth ; that thoughts can 
be read, and their vibrations felt, most distinctly; that 
they create atmospheres that are attractive or repulsive 
according to their character ; that it is a crying necessity 
that men be educated in this field, so that they shall not be 
exploited by the unscrupulous, nor fall into such errors 
themselves, but join the great thought-forces that make 
for righteousness, that is, the health and happiness, 
wealth and freedom of a man's neighbor as well as him- 
self. 

The word, silent or audible, is the conductor of 
thought, and the trained mind knows what words to 
use, and what thoughts to make positive, and what nega- 
tive; and how to keep the true thoughts free from 
adulteration of false notions, opinions, sentiments and 
fears. 

In the last chapter we dwelt upon the thoughts that 
constitute the true positive attitude of the mind, that 
makes for success through spirituality. But not only 
must we know the right positive way of thinking, but 
also we must know the right negative way of thinking. 
For in the realm of appearances, there are both the posi- 
tive and negative to be correctly manifest, in order to 
rightly reflect the things that are. To try to fill our 
mentalities with true thoughts, while clinging to old false 
ideas, is like trying to fill a full ink-bottle with milk, 
without emptying out the ink, with the result of having 
neither ink nor milk but a useless liquid. 

Out of the many affirmations of the last lesson, let 
us select these, "God is omnipresent" and "God is good/' 



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Combining them we have "Good is omnipresent," the 
first great axiom of the true Science of God. It is as 
simple as two and two are four and it is as important. 
It is the scientific basis of the true and lasting optimism. 

When the mind has "a reason for the hope" that 
is in it, then hope can pass into certainty, and even, at 
the times when experience and the senses would utterly 
sweep away a groundless optimism, one can abide in 
cheerfulness, until its wisdom and its effectiveness are 
proven. Prosperity and cheerfulness are boon com- 
panions and one always attracts the other. "Plenty and 
good cheer" has passed into proverb. 

That the realization, "Good is omnipresent," may 
be with one continually, the mind must be given over to 
that kind of thinking, night and day. The old scriptural 
instructions, to "love God with all your heart, soul, mind 
and strength," and to "meditate on His Law night and 
day," to "pray without ceasing" and to "acknowledge 
Him in all thy ways" can be fulfilled only by determined 
refusal to entertain the opposite thoughts and feelings. 
Thus the mind refuses to meditate upon evil and fail- 
ures, wrongs and losses, fears and worriments. 

Every time an unhappy thought arises, wisdom dis- 
places it with a silent statement of the allness of the 
Good. Reason becomes the schoolmaster, and the sense- 
testimonies are set aside. Not only do we remember the 
Lord our "God, for it is He that giveth thee power to 
get wealth," but we learn to forget the old ways of 
ascribing our riches to material sources and personal 
efforts. In remembering the Lord our God, we are 
reminding ourselves of the All Good, and this means a 
forgetting of evil. 

There are people, who are suffering from condi- 
tions of poverty, because their minds are filled with 
memories of losses and failures. If you think about loss, 
you produce what you think about. Sometimes it is not 
a meditation on the loss of money and things, but upon 



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the loss of friends, or reputation, or some other good, 
that seems to have no connection with one's financial 
welfare. 

Socrates says "He that grieves much is a magnet to 
attract waste of property/' Cease to grieve, or entertain 
sad memories of any kind. One student of truth had a 
revelation as to the cause of her failures, upon hearing 
these words of Socrates. She could trace the beginning 
of the long time of hard luck to the day, when she was 
overwhelmed by the loss of a darling son. She grieved 
and grieved, although she was in the truth, and knew 
that she was not loyal to her principles in continuing such 
indulgence. But with this awakening, she resolved to 
put away her sorrow, and remember that her son lived 
throughout eternity, and no longer deny the presence of 
the All-Good. And from the day of that resolution, her 
affairs revived, so that today she has a deep-seated 
consciousness of God's eternal supply, and demonstrates 
it daily. 

Our thinking is assisted by our speech, so let our 
determination be to speak on the bright side and refrain 
from talking about "hard times" and "money being 
scarce," and other forms of financial straits. 

Man himself decides the character of the times by 
his mental attitude. Man controls the currency, he can 
make it free, or congested, at will, and sometimes one 
man can be the key-log of a whole situation, continuing 
the "jam" by his own stolidity, or causing an easy flow 
by his freedom. 

As an illustration of the difference it makes to an 
individual, whether he talks "hard times," or simply 
refrains from such speech, a gentleman told me the fol- 
lowing as an actual experience: 

There were two merchants in a town in Southern 
California, both in a flourishing state, until a time of 
financial panic, which put the character of each to the 
test. One talked of the bank failures and the gloomy 



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outlook, the other was full of assurance that it could not 
last, and had only cheery answers to all the pessimistic 
speculations, and never indulged himself in any talk on 
the negative side. 

About twenty miles from that town, lived a young 
man on a ranch, which he was developing, while depend- 
ing for his living upon a monthly remittance, which came 
from his home in England. He knew of nothing that 
was taking place in the rest of the world, as he had no 
newspapers, receiving his mail only when he drove to 
town, which was at long intervals of time. On such 
visits he always laid in a good store of provisions. 

In the midst of the panic-time he went to town, 
stopped at the store of the optimistic merchant, and 
"stocked up" liberally. Then he went over to the other 
merchant's place where he intended to buy just as freely. 
He found that merchant standing idly at his door, and 
exclaimed at finding such a dearth of customers. There- 
upon the merchant launched forth with his tale of woe, 
which so affected the young man, that he ceased all further 
purchasing, and soon started for his ranch, resolving to 
hold to his money, although England at the time was 
not in the least moved by the local stringencies of America. 
And he said, the optimist went through the hard times 
with little falling away, while the other merchant did 
not recover his old status until long after the panic had 
passed. 

It is as foolish for men to hold back their money at 
a time of national, financial difficulties, as for the motorist 
to shut down on his power before ascending a hill. But 
what could change this natural action of self-preserva- 
tion but spiritual insight, and regard for one's neigh- 
bor's welfare, equal to the regard for one's own. 

Three dominant ways of carnal thought must be 
emptied out of the mind: (1) the belief in evil; (2) in 
materiality; (3) in the mortal self; and daily, three domi- 
nant spiritual ideas must take their place: (1) the belief 



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in the All-Good; (2) in Mind as the one substance and 
cause; (3) in the God-Self as All in All. 

The power to set aside one's human self-hood, 
through realizing the Self that is divine is called Meek- 
ness. This word is not commonly understood, being 
generally associated with weakness and lack of spirited- 
ness. Whereas no one can be truly meek who is not 
strong and spirited. 

Moses has been cited as the most marked ex- 
ample of the meekness that inherits the earth. Full 
of fire, and charged with pow r er, he did not use these 
for his own personal advantage. But he wished all to 
stand at the same place that he had reached. One of 
his followers, Joshua, once grew very jealous for his 
master's glory and power, and asked permission to stop 
certain young men in the camp from prophesying, be- 
cause they had not been ordained to that work by the 
great Moses. But the mighty man replied to his disciple 
in these noble words : 

"Enviest thou for my sake? Would God that all 
the Lord's people were prophets, and that the Lord 
would put his spirit upon them!" Numbers 11:29. 

There are people, who do not go on to their pros- 
perity, because they are so full of the earthly selfhood — 
all the time thinking of their rights, and seeking to exalt 
themselves, and demanding acknowledgment from others 
of their righteousness and ability. Pride prevents them 
from doing work for which they are especially adapted, 
and which they could honor and exalt, if they entered 
into it with the right spirit. Egotism makes them in- 
sufferable to others — even to those who would other- 
wise be glad to prosper them. Envy makes them bitter, 
and even malicious, in their action and speech so that 
men, who are in a position to choose their associates, 
avoid them. Covetousness and greed make them over- 
reach the mark, in placing value on their goods, from 
which, again, fear may make them run to the other 



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extreme and undervalue their work and cheapen them- 
selves. Ambition blinds them, and after many failures, 
leaves them stranded, wallowing in pessimism and pov- 
erty. All because they did not know how to let go of 
that mortal self-hood, the "little I," and so enter into 
the power of their mighty Meekness. 

Meekness is freedom from pride, envy, greed and 
egotism. It is a certain emptiness that has a wonderful 
drawing power. 

The principle of Meekness is the same as that of 
the vacuum. It is that which keeps all good in circula- 
tion. What the vacuum is in nature, meekness is with 
the rich Substance of God. Without a vacuum, that 
continually demands filling, the movements of nature 
would cease. It is the vacuum that draws the air into 
the lungs, that pulls the sap up the trees. And in me- 
chanics it is the secret of the useful pump and the 
mighty steam engine. O, the mystery of the vacuum! 
who can compass it? 

Even when men have but a little of this Meekness, 
it has made them rich. It is the key to the prosperity 
of many a "self-made man." With small beginnings, 
letting no pride stand in his way, he has gone steadily 
ahead, often quite free from envy before the success 
of others, and even, when at the pinnacle, so free from 
vanity as to do menial things, if exigency requires it, 
and not think himself lowered by anything he does. 
Yet, again, he may lose that meekness — he may forget 
and let pride and egotism arrest his development, all 
because his meekness was not grounded in knowledge 
but was an unconscious gift from his God-Being. 

When one's God-given meekness continues through 
life, then one's prosperity includes, with riches, great 
honor, and position. The world loves to honor the man 
who loses himself in the Cause for which he stands. It 
was this quality in General Grant that made it easy for 
the world to honor the United States, in honoring him. 



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His silence, his freedom from egotism, his modesty and 
freedom from all demands as U. S. Grant, opened wide 
the gates for the inrush of praise and gifts. The world 
lay at his feet. He needed only the Christ-knowledge to 
have placed him forever beyond the reach of failure. 

The full Meekness of the Christ is established in the 
consciousness, that is right valuation. In it there is ever 
the seeking first the kingdom of God, and there is a per- 
fect deliverance from the pursuit of material things. 
They follow, they seek him. He does not need to run 
after them, they are drawn to him as fervently as steel to 
the magnet, for he has the Substance which they shadow. 
Those who pursue material things are always just miss- 
ing them, and not until they do not care, and may even 
have forgotten their ardent desire for them, do they come 
and settle down in their world. The Talmud says 
"Who runs after greatness, greatness runs away from, 
but who runs away from greatness, greatness runs after." 

Turn that rich desire-nature of yours into realiza- 
tion, that there is nothing for you really to pursue. All 
that you have sought, all that is worth the having, you 
already have, you already are. Awake ! arise ! Come 
to yourself and rest in the great Truth of the ages, that 
the one desire of our heart is, and always has been, GOD. 
And God we have, and God we are. For there is naught 
else to have or to be. Perceiving this, you fulfill the in- 
junctions of old for very joy's sake, "hearkening dili- 
gently unto the Voice of the Lord" wherever uttered, 
upon the lips of fools or in the oracles of masters, in 
song of bird or of poet, in the roar of the earthquake or 
in the still small voice within. And ever hearing and 
obeying, the prophecy is fulfilled in your life: 

"And all these blessings shall come on thee, and 
overtake thee." 

"Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt 
thou be in the field." 

"Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store." 



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"Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and 
blessed thalt thou be when thou goest out." 

"And the Lord shall make thee plenteous in goods, 
in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and 
in the fruit of thy ground/' 

"The Lord shall open unto thee his good treasure, 
the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, 
and to bless all the work of thine hand." Deut. 28 :2, 3, 5, 
6, 11, 12. 



In conjunction with the meditation, given at the 
close of the last lesson, meditate daily upon the follow- 
ing, learning the words by heart, and repeating them, 
until there is an answering thrill within you at each 
repetition : 

/ AM THAT I AM, the rich fountain of your 
abundant supply within you. By the power of the Spirit, 
my rich substance is now overflowing into every avenue 
and expression of your Life. 

My presence and my power, working all things to- 
gether for good, is felt and seen in everything you put 
\your hand to. 

I AM THAT I AM, your Very Self, filling your 
whole being and all your world. Where I AM, there is 
only Good, and therefore I declare, there is no place in 
all being for evil; there never can be any failure; there 
is nothing to fear. 

Where I AM, there is only pure Spirit, divine Mind, 
the eternal rich Substance of God. Therefore I declare 
the nothingness of material things. They have no power 
to attract or bind Me. I know no greed for possessions. 
I have all that is real, and I covet nothing that passes 
away. 

Where I AM, there is only Love, that loves and gives 
to All, and therefore I know no envy or jealousy, no 
pride or selfishness. 



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"Come unto Me all ye that labor and are heavy laden 
and I will give you rest." 

"Take My yoke upon yon and learn of Me; for 
I AM MEBK and lowly in heart : and ye shall find rest 
unto your souls!' 

"For My yoke is easy and My burden is light." 



III. 

Confidence Through Knowledge of Truth. 

"Be sure you're right, then go ahead." 

"Because thou hast asked this thing ... I have 
given thee a wise and understanding heart . . . and I have 
also given thee that which thou hast not asked, both riches 
and honor. "— I Kings 3:11, 12, IS. 

One of the most essential concomitants to pros- 
perity is confidence — self-confidence and confidence in 
others, trust in the outcome of an undertaking, and 
assurance that one is in the right, and bound to win. 
Without this deep, interior faith, one cannot draw the 
confidence of others, and so have the co-operation of all 
those, whose aid and abetting, can give actual standing 
in the business world. 

Everything works for, and to the credit of, those 
who "know in whom they have believed/' and who have 
great principles for the foundation of their confidence in 
themselves, and in their enterprise. 

Credit is one of the greatest business factors, if not 
the greatest, in the world today. It w r ould be impossible 
to carry on the commerce and trade which are so gen- 
eral, active and immense throughout this w r orld, if it were 
not for the great credit system. There is not enough 
money coined to be the medium of exchange necessary 
to, and equal to the ratio of, the business transacted even 
in one day, nor is there time, or facilities, to affect the 
exchanges, that even the banks would require, if sud- 
denly all credit were removed from affairs. 



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So potent is Credit, that even the touch of the hem 
of its garment, has been known to save a man from finan- 
cial death. A story is told of the power that the Roths- 
childs yield in the realm of Credit, that once a man whose 
business was on the very verge of ruin but who, with a 
little restraint put upon his creditors, could pass by the 
crisis in his affairs, appealed to one of the great Roths- 
childs (who knew him but slightly yet believed his story), 
for a word, an endorsement, a loan, that would pilot him 
through the dangerous straits. The giant-financier said 
to him: 

"My friend, I have an errand down the street, just 
take my arm and walk with me." 

And so, as intimate business friends, they passed 
among the brokers of Paris. It was enough. His credit- 
ors stayed their claims, the crisis was passed, and the 
man's business was saved. It was Thought that did the 
work, the greatest power in the world. 

To know when to have confidence, where to place it, 
and how to retain it, these are some of the questions. 
There are those who are not succeeding, because of an 
undue caution and a lack of trust. Or, in giving credit, 
they have lacked judgment, or dealt with a slack hand, 
or get into bondage because of fear. 

Then there are those, who think they cannot trust 
anybody — that all men are dishonest, and they will trust 
no one, until he, or she, has been proven trust-worthy. 
Experience has been their hard and bitter teacher. 

In this world of appearances, there are two kinds 
of trust, a positive, and a negative. The latter is the trust 
of the ignorant, and unless there comes wisdom and 
understanding, theirs may prove even a false trust, which 
will and must finally pass away. Innocence can trust and 
be justified, for innocence is divine. Ignorance and inno- 
cence are not synonyms, as some suppose; there is no 
perfect innocence that is not based upon intuitive knowl- 
edge. It is when the innocent one begins to mix with 



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worldly knowledge that failure follows. Then their trust 
in people becomes a mere looking to the mortal, and their 
trust in God is in a being, who is far away, with partiali- 
ties, and of uncertain character. And presently their 
faith is tried, and it cannot stand because their knowl- 
edge, being of a worldly nature, is according to appear- 
ances, and has not real foundation. 

True Trust, the positive confidence, that nothing can 
take from you, is trust in the Godhood of everybody, and 
everything. You trust yourself, because you let your 
Divine Self guide you. You know that the Lord in you 
can do everything, and you let It's wisdom direct you, 
and give you skill and insight, inspiration and under- 
standing. You may need to remind yourself often of 
the One in whom you trust, if you have hitherto lacked 
confidence. Or, if your old confidence was a kind of 
self-conceit, brazen yet weak, when you pass like the 
apostle Paul, from the old boldness to the new meek, 
yet fearless, confidence, it will be good to say, "I can do 
all things through Christ which strengthened me," 
Phil. 4:13. 

This is the Wisdom, of which Solomon sung and 
wrote, whose price is above rubies, "For the merchandise 
of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the 
gain thereof than fine gold," Prov. 3:14. It was this 
understanding, that brought to that king all his riches 
and honor. With it, you cannot be poor. Mines of rich 
ore are discovered by it. Timely inventions spring forth 
from it. Secrets of nature come w r ith it. Business fore- 
sight, judgment as to human efficiency, right valuations 
as to land and commodities, are some of its gifts. The 
category of advantages, that accrue with divine under- 
standing, is too long and universal to be written about 
in these lessons — only taste and see. 

By this light, you look for the divinity in everyone, 
even the dishonest, and that One will come forward. By 
having your eye single to that One you will also be able 



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to discern as to the errors that hide it, and there will be 
no confusion in your mind, as to human nature. You'll 
not put your "trust in the flesh/' nor "in princes," but 
ever in the One that is trust worthy. 

Be sure the Lord is on your side. Your sense of 
righteousness is keen enough for that. Business ethics 
are not different from others. Business is not business 
with the Spirit left out. It is only a dead and cold 
Moloch that in the end will consume the fairest and dear- 
est that you hold in life. If you abandon scruples and 
conscience you must not sink, but rise on the wings of 
your Godhood, a law unto yourself, and the Supreme 
Benefactor of the whole human race. 

Certain good people fear to be rich, lest they should 
fall into the snare of riches, and miss their way into eter- 
nal happiness. Learn to pray that you be "not led into the 
temptations" of any God-gift. The Spirit can protect you 
from every liability, if you but remember. The saying, 
"How hard it is for them that trust in riches to enter 
into the kingdom of God" (Mark 10:24), applies to the 
poor as well as the rich, for many are the poverty-stricken 
who labor under the delusion, that they would be com- 
pletely happy if they were only rich. It is our attitude 
towards riches that determines whether they are a stum- 
bling-block or not. Good people ! search the Scriptures, 
and gather together the many texts that show that riches 
belong to the righteous ! No longer deceive yourselves 
into thinking Jesus was poor ! At any moment he could 
have had all the wealth of the world at his command. 
Compare two statements which Paul makes about the 
Master as to his poverty and his sin, that both were but 
an appearance: 

"For he made him to be sin for us, who knew no 
sin ; that we might be made the righteousness of God in 
him," 2 Cor. 5:21. 

"Ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ that 



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though he was rich, he became poor that ye through his 
poverty might be rich," 2 Cor. 8 :9. 

It is not money that is the root of all evil, but the 
love of it. Let money be nothing to you ; and let us not 
talk of "wanting to be rich because of the good we could 
do," but let us see we wish to be rich because it is right, 
and it belongs to the daughters of the King, and the 
princes of God. 

There is never any occasion in all one's life for los- 
ing faith, or for entertaining doubt. The man who 
"doubts not in his heart," according to the Master, can 
"have whatsoever he saith," Mark 11 :23. 

Faith is persistency, which is rooted in the knowl- 
edge that "this good is for you, and you can have it." 
When Jesus wished to illustrate the faith that wins, he 
chose an example of persistency, that won its way be- 
cause of its own nature, and not because of justice, or 
love, or any other reason. He cites the case of a Judge 
who neither feared God nor regarded man ; and a widow 
came to him, demanding that justice be done her in a 
certain cause. At first the Judge pays no attention but 
the widow troubles him so with her determined claims, 
that at last he yields to the widow, "lest by her continual 
coming she weary me." 

By this analogy, the Master would give insight as to 
a Law, by which one can receive his own, even though 
neither merit nor love have succeeded in bringing it to 
him. Another peculiar parable to illustrate this power 
of persistent prayer is given in Luke 11:5 to 10, "because 
of his importunity." 

When tempted to complain and to say, "I've always 
tried to do right, and to be good, and I've never wronged 
anyone; I don't see why I should be so poor and suffer 
so !" close your lips on that utterance before it can come 
forth, and rise in your mind above the law of cause and 
effect, of reward and punishment and take fresh hold of 
the thought; 



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"My Good is for me, whether I deserve it, or not, 
and I can have it now, and I do have it this moment in 
Spirit, and now, it can manifest!" 

Once a young woman came to San Francisco from 
a country town, an orphan and friendless, desiring to get 
work. She soon found that her lack of experience in 
work handicapped her sadly. She was unattractive and 
without tact, silent and colorless. But she had a mar- 
vellous tenacity. At last she got a position in the United 
States Mint, a most difficult thing to do, unless one has 
excellent endorsement. She remained there three years, 
because her political sponsor was such a man of influence. 
Someone inquired one day as to his personal character, 
and she replied, "I know little, or nothing, about him 
beyond the brief conversations, that I had with him be- 
fore getting my position." And then she told her simple 
story of how she succeeded, where hundreds had failed. 

When she heard that women worked in the Mint, 
she went to the Superintendent to ask for a position. He 
was a polite man, and answered her courteously, that 
there were no vacancies. In a few days she applied again. 
Receiving the same answer she left a self-addressed en- 
velope, asking the Superintendent to let her know when 
there would be a vacancy. She presented herself, after 
that, numbers of times — every few days. At last the 
Superintendent must have pitied her ignorance, and per- 
haps admired her simplicity, for he condescended to ex- 
plain to her that without "influence" — the endorsement 
of some statesman or other man of great public power, 
or position — she could not be accepted. She asked him 
to name such a man. It happened that a certain Con- 
gressman had arrived in the City that very day. She went 
to see him, took his specious promises in earnest, and 
haunted his office day after day, until at last to get rid of 
her he wrote the letter that gave her the place. It is the 
story of the Widow and the Judge repeated, Luke 18: 
2 to 7. 



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Many a man, and woman, has succeeded by just such 
simple faith. It was not the mere going; nor by a bold 
impertinent annoyance ; nor was it an ordinary aggres- 
siveness, but a deep childlike trust that took every one at 
his word and knew no failure. 

It is wise never to approach another with the idea 
of non-success. If you have such impression, either 
recover from that lack of faith on your own part, or make 
no attempt to see the person. 

Faith in the good-will of people, when it is based 
upon your respect for their True Self, often forces them, 
for very peace of mind and self-respect, to show forth 
their better side. So well is the law recognized today in 
trade, that clerks and other employees are being educated 
by their employers to welcome all with a pleasant face, 
and, whether customers buy or not, whether they are 
polite or not, to be invariably courteous and agreeable 
themselves. Such is good, common business-sense. 

A noted merchant-prince of Chicago had the follow- 
ing printed, and freely distributed among his patrons and 
employees, as the ruling "Idea" of his great store : 

"To do the right thing at the right time, in the right 
way; to do some things better than they were ever done 
before; to eliminate errors; to knozv both sides of the 
question; to be courteous; to be an example; to work for 
love of the work; to anticipate requirements; to develop 
resources; to recognize no impediments ; to master circum- 
stances; to act from reason rather than rule ; to be satis- 
fied with nothing short of perfection!' 

The finishing and sealing of eternal Confidence in 
your self, your fellow-man, and your world, lie in the 
realization of the Truth of these two master thoughts : 
1st — That your Richness is a blessing to all creation; and, 
2nd— That it is the Will of the true God, that you shall 
be a great Success on earth, as well as in heaven. 

The old thought, that one cannot be rich but at the 
expense of his neighbor, must pass away, and every prac- 



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tice that has had that thought for its basis. True pros- 
perity adds to the richness of the whole earth, like the 
benefit conferred by the man who makes two trees grow 
where only one grew before. The parasitical belief of 
prospering by the sacrifices of others has no place in the 
mind that thinks true. My benefit is your benefit, your 
success is my welfare, should be the basis of our wealth. 

It is the divine will, that you shall be a self-reliant, 
self-supporting being, strong, upright, efficient, a noble- 
man of God's realm, able to command all the elements, 
and to use and beautify all creation, through knowledge 
of the Self and union with God. 

It was in man's disobedient view of the Lord, that 
he judged Him a harsh, austere task-master over poor 
slaves. Now we know that we do not honor God with 
such a view, but we see Him as He is, the lover of all ; 
the true God, who wills that everyone shall enter into joy 
and freedom, while yet on the earth, by co-operating with 
the only Will there is, which seeks always and every- 
where the Good and Happiness of the whole. 



IV. 
Inspiration in Work. 

"Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy 
might. " — Ecclesiastes 9:10. 

"■Not by might nor by power but by my Spirit, saith the 
Lord of hosts" [Forces]. — Zech. 4:6. 

Every human being is a dynamo of concentrated, 
creative energy, ever seeking avenues of expression. And 
when the right avenues have been found, and there is 
nothing that prevents the free and full manifestation of 
that energy, then heavenly joy is realized, and continues, 
as the fruits of that work return and glorify their source. 

Work is divine, and everyone who is normal in mind 
and body, loves work — not labor, but work, for there is 
a distinction between work and labor. The first is the 
creative activity of God, congenial, united with love, in- 
spired, one with play and one with rest. True work is 
subject to our choice, never obligatory, nor limited by 
time or space. It is done from the heart, and there is no 
curse upon it, for the worker obeys the inner Voice, and 
ever seeks Its sanction in all he does. But labor is work, 
mixed with false thoughts and feelings, and therefore its 
fruits are not happiness and freedom. 

It is ignorance of one's divine origin, and unspiritual 
living, that bring man to the place where he must labor 
in the sweat of his face, become a slave to others, and 
have imposition, cruelty and injustice heaped upon him. 
To escape the misery and degradation of undesirable and 
brutish labor, man must get knowledge about himself and 



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his fellow-beings, and above all, know the true God, and 
the reason of Jesus Christ's coming, and the Way to live 
his Life. 

Men may change their environments and their mas- 
ters, may seek new work, and make new laws, but as long 
as they are content to sit in spiritual darkness, and ignore 
the God within, the problem of labor will go unsolved. 
Social and economic systems grow out of man's views 
of life, and the passions that dominate them. If these are 
radically wrong, then the systems are false, and only as 
Christ-ideals are held uppermost in mind, and human 
passions are turned from earthly power and money — the 
passions of the poor, as w T ell as the rich — can new sys- 
tems rise, true laws be enacted, and the curse of the old 
order pass away. 

Every one has a congenial work ; it is that, which 
men can do most happily and successfully; wherein they 
can feel themselves in tune with their own soul, and the 
souls of their fellow-beings. 

The most direct way to that work is by The Rule 
of the Word. 

To the novitiate in spiritual methods, this will need 
explanation and enlargement. 

First of all, let us understand, and agree upon this, 
that All is Mind; that matter and motion, the two com- 
ponents into which scientists classify all the parts and 
phrases of creation, are, in other words, mind-stuff and 
its play upon itself — in the Highest, God-Substance and 
God-working. 

Thought is mind in motion, and every activity upon 
this earth began as a secret thought. The nature of an 
activity can be decided by the quality of the thought that 
was its origin, and the thoughts which followed and w T ere 
its modifiers. When a thought comes out of abstraction 
into the definite form of a word, it is like captured elec- 
tricity, and can be conserved, directed and used, as its 
speaker wills. 



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As iron-moulds determine the forms of the melted 
metal that is poured into them, so the Word decides the 
outer form, which thoughts are to take in the realm of 
appearances. 

As moulds are patterned after certain ideals in the 
mind of their creator, so our words should be spoken from 
our higher consciousness — the heavenly ideals that are 
now true in God. 

The Rule of the Word is to speak ever, in the present 
tense, the Truth as it is in God, using positive affirma- 
tions with the Good only, and negative statements as to 
evil. It is to look to the Word as the God-appointed 
means of bringing into the visible our Good, which still 
seems invisible to our earthly senses. 

There is a direct line between you and the work that 
you desire to do, the position which you can best fill. That 
line remains ever the same, and you move along it by the 
power of your True Word, and the Truth you speak is 
that which applies to your divine Self, which is ever in 
its right place and doing its harmonious and happy work. 

Following this Rule you declare: 

"I am now in my right place/' 

"I am now doing the work I love to do. ,} 

According to appearances, these w r ords may seem un- 
true. But you are not speaking from that view-point, 
but from the realm of the Real. "But," you may say, "if 
words are such powers, will not such statements keep me 
in my present position and work, which are both so un- 
desirable ?" 

Not unless that position and work are quite trans- 
formed, and become truly representative of your heaven- 
ly state and activity. This sometimes takes place under 
the Word. 

As you continue gathering spiritual thoughts, and 
ruling your silent mental speech, as well as your audible 
w r ords, according to the highest ideals, you may discover 



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that you are where you are, to redeem certain traits of 
character that militate against your spiritual advance- 
ment, and therefore interfere with your earthly prosperity 
also. Then you will be wise, to cast yourself fervently 
upon the Divine Presence to move you and to place you, 
just when, and where, the Supernal Will decrees, while 
you still hold the True Word. 

By so doing, one saves oneself many unnecessary, 
even painful, experiences, the result of the unregenerate 
nature interfering. 

Often one does not know just what work would be 
most congenial, or may even feel that one is not yet fitted 
for the work that would most appeal; in either case, the 
Christ-abandonment to the Divine Will is wisdom, and 
perfect trust in the love of our heavenly Father, the surest 
road to that wherein lies our supreme success. 

Eliminate every false thought from the work in 
which you are now engaged, and whether you be em- 
ployer or employee often meditate upon such thoughts 
as these: 

/ cannot grow weary in well-doing. I cannot be over- 
worked. No mortal can enslave me. No person or insti- 
tution can bind me. I am fearless and free. No false sys- 
tem can use me or abuse me, I am God's free man, I am 
God's noble man. 

I u labor not for the meat that perisheth but for that 
meat which endureth unto everlasting life which the Son 
of man shall give unto" me. Nothing is laborious to me. 
I am not an hireling. Money is no object to me. 

I serve the Lord in All, lovingly, faithfully, abund- 
antly, and I trust the Lord in All to serve me richly, hon- 
orably, truly. 

I am redeemed from every curse of labor. I am not 
duty-bound. 

In secret, as well as openly, I do my best. All my 
zvork is on honor. 

Competition is nothing to me. Another's success can- 



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not take my success away. My own comes to me. I have 
no rivals. I knozv no enemies. I rejoice in my neighbor s 
success. 

Slander cannot hurt me, for I envy no man. Bitter- 
ness and strife have no place in my affairs. Only the ele- 
ments of harmony can enter into my business. I draw to 
me those that love truth and honor. 

I fear no lack for my Loved Ones. They attract pros- 
perity even as I do. 

I gravitate to the highest, most valuable, most useful 
and happiest position and work, which I can now fulfill to 
the honor of man and the glory of God. 

Emerson says in Spiritual Laws : "Each man has 
his own vocation. The talent is the call. There is one 
direction in which space is open to him. He has faculties 
silently inviting him thither to endless exertion. He is 
like a ship in a river; he runs against obstructions on 
every side but one; on that side all obstruction is taken 
away, and he sweeps serenely over God's depths into an 
infinite sea. By doing his work he makes the need felt 
which he can supply. He creates the taste by which he 
is enjoyed. He provokes the wants to which he can min- 
ister. By doing his own work, he unfolds himself/' 

When one has no position at all, and everything is 
crying out in him, and through those near and dear to 
him, for the sustenance which he still feels must come by 
the law of cause and effect, as he seems not yet to realize 
the Absolute, what then? 

The same Rule of the Word applies to him, as to 
others, but more than anything else, let him attend to the 
Spirit of rich service and divine guidance within him. 

Perhaps there has been too much running to and fro, 
and whipping oneself into strenuous search after work 
with, all the time, a sense of the uselessness of it. Then 
it is wise to stay, like Mary of Bethany, "still in the 
house/' until the inner message is brought "The Master 
is come and calleth for thee." An illustration of this in 



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a Truth-student's experience will serve best to convey 
the instruction intended: 

A man whose wife had been healed of a severe case 
of rheumatism, had long been out of work because of his 
appetite for drink, which had not only caused his dis- 
charge from many good positions, but had drawn upon 
him most bitter invectives from his last employer, who 
had suffered certain losses through his failing. This 
"Captain" (he was called) swore at him, and told him 
never to show his face in his (the Captain's) place again. 

But the man had been wholly healed of his intem- 
perance, through his wife's spiritual treatments, and all 
appetite for liquor had left him forever. Nevertheless, as 
he went to and fro through the City looking for work, no 
one would take him, because, as they would say, "You 
said before you had sworn off and w r ould never drink 
again. We cannot trust you." 

The wife was trying to help with her word, but she 
was young in the thought and, needing more instruction, 
came to me to ask w T hat to do next. 

"He has gone everywhere he knows," she said, "and 
is ready to go more, although he feels it will not be any 
use, and that there must be another way." 

Since he was beginning to get this impression, I said : 

"Now he is ready to 'stand still and see the salvation 
of the Lord !' Let him not go out of the house again for 
work, unless he has a strong impression from within, but 
let him speak the Word : 'I have my true position, I am 
now in my right work.' " 

He did so. It required fortitude and strength of 
character to abide by it. But he knew enough of the prin- 
ciples of Truth to wait and trust. 

In a day or so, the mail brought a letter from that 
same Captain, to whom he had not presumed to go, after 
the terrible dismissal he had received, couched in polite 
language, saying that he had heard that he (the man) had 
been looking for a position, and that there was an opening 



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in his old place, if he desired to come back. He took the 
old position, where he remained many years after, until 
he finally went into business for himself. 

Fill the heart and mind with desire to serve, regard- 
less of whether there be recognition of your value, or just 
recompense for your good work, and there will gather 
within you a rich quality, which can always be sensed by 
a man of large outlook, making him respect your appli- 
cation even when ignoring ordinary demands. 

A successful man in Vancouver, who was attending 
a Prosperity Course which I was giving in that city, fur- 
nished me with an example of the success of this method 
in his own experience as an employer: A few days be- 
fore, as he was loading, or rather superintending the 
loading, as stevedore, of a great number of barges with 
lumber, two men came to him, one after the other, ask- 
ing for work. It was not uncommon, and would have 
passed by unnoticed, as he told them he had all the men 
he wanted, but for two incidents. The first was, that each 
did the same thing though strangers to each other. After 
receiving the short, quick dismissal of the stevedore, who 
was exceedingly busy with a "rush" order, the first man 
went and sat on a pile of lumber to watch the workers ; 
the second did the same thing, sitting down near the 
first one. 

As a great load was being swung around by a der- 
rick, it began slipping, and the stevedore shouted for the 
other men to come to the rescue. Some were excited, 
some were slow, and as the stevedore called for more, 
the man' who had been second to ask him for work, sprang 
forward w T ith the rest, and gave his best, not only then, but 
continued working on for the rest of the day. At the 
close of the day, the stevedore touched him on the shoul- 
der, and said, "Come tomorrow, my man, I want men 
like you !" And he gave him the position next day, with 
the thought that he would keep an eye on that man. While 



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the first applicant was lost to him as a pebble dropped 
among many others. 

Further points to be considered in obtaining employ- 
ment, will be brought out in our next lesson, which will 
also be devoted to the way out of debt, and aiding others 
to pay their indebtedness to us. 

Through all the success that comes to us in our 
worldly business, let us never forget that we came to this 
earth on one Special Errand alone, and, in as much as we 
accomplish that charge, are we really successful. Truly 
there is but one Business in all God's world, that is, to 
prove our own divinity, and the Godhood of the whole 
race, in proving that God is All there really is. 



V. 
Freedom from Debt. 

Owe no man anything but to love one another; for he 
that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. Love worketh no 
ill to his neighbor: therefore, love is the fulfilling of the law. 
— The Apostle Paul. 

Wherever there is a sense of indebtedness there also 
is honor ; and where honor abides, wealth and power are 
near at hand, for in Spirit they are never separated: 
"Both riches and honor come of thee and thou reignest 
over all ; and in thy hand is power and might ; and in 
thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto 
all," 1 Chron. 29:12. And so surely as a debtor gets 
understanding, by which he can keep his trust as well as 
his honor, he will never be harassed by his creditors, nor 
be brought to shame or want. 

It is a matter of wonderment to some people that they 
are trusted so implicitly by their creditors. Yet the rea- 
son is simple. Men are continually reading each other's 
thoughts, and when there is a determination to do right 
by one's neighbor, this state of mind is written upon the 
face and in the actions, as well as radiating through the 
aura, and if the creditor will but trust his impressions his 
debtor then becomes simply a good investment. 

As that wise Jew, Paul, declared — and a spiritual 
Jew is a masterly financier — the key to freedom from debt 
is Love that seeks the good of his neighbor first, last and 
always. For with Love is that respect, that honor that is 
a perpetual magnet for riches, even though they are 



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passed along as rapidly as received, and one may not ap- 
pear to be rich through accumulation. The truly rich are 
those who have plenty to spend, and spend that plenty, 
not those who have plenty to save, and save it. The miser 
is not rich. The prodigal is nearer to prosperity, even in 
his ignorance, than the thrifty who never learns to spend. 

Perfect love casts out fear as to one's continuance in 
prosperity, and guides one into the Way where indebted- 
ness is no burden, but a convenient and harmonious ar- 
rangement, where each is benefited, and each is sure of 
the outcome. 

But the debts that we made in folly and selfishness, 
that hang over us like a pall, and drag upon us from the 
past, so that there seems no deliverance ! What of these ? 
And those that, it would seem, could only be paid with a 
life-time of labor, and yet no prospect of funds lies ahead 
of us? 

"Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as 
white as snow." Though your debts be "scarlet," they 
shall all be cancelled, for such debts in the affairs are like 
sins in the character, and the Christ-law must be known, 
and applied, to bring perfect freedom. In the prayer 
which Jesus gave to his disciples, as a pattern, we have 
this law, embedded in the words, "Forgive us our debts 
as we forgive our debtors." 

As you open the way by which your debtors can be 
free to pay you, or not, according to the great equity of 
God, the way of your freedom will be revealed. Let us 
consider the mental philosophy of "forgiving our debtors," 
so that they may be helped to pay us, if not with money, 
by something valuable to us. It may be revealed to us 
that an old score in some former existence has been bal- 
anced, and they really owe us nothing. At any rate, it is 
not true for us to hold any thought or feeling against our 
neighbors, no matter how false their attitude towards us, 
but at all times to have such a state of mind regarding 



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them, that they shall feel comfortable in our presence, and 
even glad to think of us. 

People often keep others from paying them, because 
of mentally harassing their debtors. They wonder with 
indignation why so and so does not pay that bill, and per- 
haps they talk him (or her) over with a mutual acquaint- 
ance, until, if character w r ere clothes, he would not have a 
rag to his back. Perhaps one hears that the debtor is 
spending money freely — buying luxuries — and the rumor 
adds fuel to the flames. 

In the meantime the debtor is exceedingly uncom- 
fortable every time the thought of that creditor comes 
into mind, and he shuns him. If he sees him coming, he 
will cross the street, or in some way avoid a meeting. He 
may even hate him. Finally, he succeeds in so dismissing 
that creditor from his mind that, when he is ready to pay 
his debts, that one does not come into mind at all. This 
sense of uncomfortableness is also the reason why one who 
has received a favor of money loaned, is so often not a 
good friend after that — the burden of obligation chafes 
him. 

If, because of Truth, you will not think evil of your 
debtor, that he is dishonest, or untrue, or selfish, or weak, 
or poverty-stricken, but will hold him in his noble, hon- 
orable, true being, you will easily and happily come into 
his mind, just at the right time, with the desire to do the 
right thing by you, and also the ability. This was liter- 
ally demonstrated in the experience of a lady, a student 
of Truth, who, among many others, had loaned a man a 
sum of money who made a failure in the venture, in which 
all the money had been sunk. 

He left the town, followed by anathemas from all 
his creditors but this lady. She kept her mind upon his 
true self, and whenever the subject of his delinquencies 
was broached, she never spoke against him, but always, 
"He will pay me. I have no fear. I trust him/' or words 
of like meaning. 



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Then news came that he had "struck it rich" in 
Alaska, but it brought no hope to those creditors who had 
decided that he was thoroughly bad. But the lady soon 
received a letter with the full amount of her loan in it, 
and the words, "You have never said one word against 
me, and so I pay you first. The others can wait." This 
lady exercised the real forgiveness, which is not a senti- 
ment but a power. She forgave or gave-for the false ap- 
pearance of fraud, the true thought of the Real Man, 
with the result of proving that what she declared was true. 

Our debts are forgiven us by the same process of 
the Law of the Good — substituting freedom-from-all-in- 
debtedness for the former bondage ; and healing the cause, 
our weakness or ignorance and bringing forward our good 
judgment and insight. 

With the new mind, many errors fall away, that have 
not been seen as errors, although their basis was some lim- 
itation, or belief in evil. Thus one ceases to hold back 
money from fear, or save it up for "a rainy day." When 
there comes an over-flow of money, then to bank the sur- 
plus may be a matter of convenience, and not fear. 

There should be no waiting for others to pay us be- 
fore we will consider paying our debts. Doing our part 
may supply the impetus for our debtor to do his, as when 
a single $5 piece has been known to pay $20 indebtedness 
in a family by being circulated at the right moment. 

Pride and conventionality are displaced, and debts 
may be paid in very small sums at a time, and inspiration 
guides us as to whom payment should be made first. 
Sometimes a hard thought is being held against one, so 
that it is like a curse, preventing the free flow of one's 
blessings. A true step taken may relieve the whole situ- 
ation. A dollar paid to a man who thinks what you owe 
him is a bad debt, may relieve a congestion in the thought- 
causes back of your affairs. 

A lady had been owing her music-teacher for her 
last lessons over a year, because she never had the 



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amount, fifteen dollars, on hand when she thought of 
him. She resolved to put aside her pride and fixed ideas 
of how he should be paid, and send him a dollar at a time 
until the debt was cancelled. After mailing a letter of 
apology enclosing the dollar, she received a most cordial 
reply full of protestations that she did not owe him any- 
thing, begging her to dismiss all thought about it, as she 
had paid him many times more than that amount in 
pupils, to whom she had recommended him. The at- 
tempt she had made w T ell repaid her; for not only was 
the debt cancelled, but the expression of appreciation 
that she received was a surprise and a delight, as she had 
not considered the favor she was doing him, but only the 
benefit she was conferring on those who became his 
pupils. 

Through meditating on the divine desire within you 
to bless your neighbors, there will rise a joy in paying 
them. Also, a faith that others enjoy paying you, and 
you will not dread, nor hate, to present a bill. 

Sometimes letters and other papers are so embued 
with the false thoughts which are held when they were 
being prepared, that they come like a blow, or an insult, 
and quite miss their intention. An illustration of this 
fact was given me by a member of one of my classes : 
Miss M., a healer and teacher, had given many treat- 
ments and lessons to a wealthy lady, who had made no 
movement towards payment, and finally Miss M. con- 
cluded that she was waiting for a bill. Feeling it to be 
thoughtless on the part of her patient to wait for a bill, 
and with a combination of resentment, impatience and 
indignation, she sat down and wrote the bill and mailed 
it. Now the lady was generous and just, and also a good 
student of Truth. If she had not been, Miss M. would 
have waited long for her money. 

"For," the lady said, "the moment I took the bill in 
my hand, I had such a feeling of resentment, impatience 
and indignation against you, that I almost threw the bill 



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into the waste-basket, with the vow that I wouldn't pay 
you for a month! Then I remembered my principles, 
and instantly I knew that those were your feelings about 
me, and I had been reflecting them, and I immediately 
came down here to pay you. Be careful, young lady, 
what you think, when you send out bills !" 

The question has sometimes risen, ought we to con- 
tract debts when there is no money in sight to pay them? 
Unless there is the true supreme assurance from within, 
that the money to pay such debts is already on the way, 
it is better to fast and pray until such assurance come, 
than to put oneself to too great a test. The demonstra- 
tion of faith is not the venturing into debts, but the reali- 
zation of the means to meet debts, even before they are 
contracted. 

In accordance with the statement given in our last 
lesson, I will herewith give some further thoughts about 
obtaining employment. 

Keep well in mind the understanding that you are 
no mere machine, but always a brother, and a fellow- 
man — a sister and a member of God's family. There is 
nothing so interesting to personalities as personality, and 
especially a personality that is also interested in person- 
alities. Approach those from whom you expect favors 
with interest in your face, that has sprung from com- 
muning with the Spirit within them, and whether the 
favor be granted or not, take the decision as from the 
Spirit at that moment — not necessarily final — and so 
maintain a high standard of respect between you. It will 
not be forgotten and next time you apply, it will be 
easier to get into the "good graces" of the one in power. 

Some good advice was given to a young man, who 
had been spending days looking for work, until he was 
greatly discouraged. The man who gave the advice, had 
just made the stereotyped reply, "Sorry, but I've nothing 
for you," and as the young fellow was turning sadly 
away, he added: 



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"But young man, I can give you a piece of advice, 
which, if you take it, will get you a position soon. It is 
this. Never again approach an employer with that 
gloomy face. Smile, look cheerful and you'll succeed." 

The young man thanked him and put it into practice. 
As he kept thinking upon cheerfulness, and smilingly re- 
ceived one refusal after another, he grew light-hearted 
until, at the last place he applied — a coal yard — as the 
same old answer was given him, he turned and went 
through the yard whistling a merry tune. The man 
called him back. 

"You seem to be a pretty cheerful fellow ! I 
like such men round me. Come here tomorrow, and I 
think I can make a place for you." 

He received work from that time, and never forgot 
the valuable advice of his stranger-friend. 

Never expect to succeed by appealing to another's 
pity or sympathy ; nor by bringing forward your need or 
lack, weakness or ignorance. Let your main thought 
ever be, "How can I serve you ?" 

A few aphorisms are added for your meditation : 

Riches are a state of mind. Richness should circu- 
late through our affairs as air does in the lungs. 

Nothing succeeds so well as success; nothing pros- 
pers so well as prosperity ; therefore never put on a "poor 
mouth." 

Freedom in giving and receiving is the law of 
healthy supply. The Lord [Prosperity] loveth a cheerful 
giver. 

Do not save up for a "rainy day" ; for they will come 
as long as you prepare for them. 

Money must not be clutched. It loves freedom. 

Carry yourself as one who owns the earth, for you do. 

Business instinct is spiritual intuition applied to af- 
fairs. 



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Money invested in spiritual things is not loss, but 
gain, an hundred-fold. 

"Consider the lilies how they grow." They have a 
law within themselves by which they draw to themselves 
their own sustenance. 

Get into the current of the stream of Prosperity and 
your boat will be carried along all right without inter- 
fering with your neighbor. 



VI. 
The Rich Mentality. 

Lay up for yourselves treasures iu heaven. — Matt, 6:20, 

A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth 
forth good things. — Matt. 12:35. 

They shall prosper that love thee. — Ps. 122:6. 

Then shalt thou prosper if thou takest heed to fulfill the 
statutes and judgments. — 1 Chron. 22:13. 

Why transgress ye the commandments of the Lord that 
ye cannot prosper? because ye have forsaken the Lord he hath 
also forsaken you. — 2 Chron. 24:20. 

Acquaint now thyself with him and be at peace: thereby 
shall good come unto thee. Eeceive I pray thee the law from 
his mouth and lay up his words in thine heart. If thou return 
to the Almighty thou shalt be built up . . . Then shalt thou 
lay up gold as dust and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the 
brooks. Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defense and thou shalt 
have plenty of silver. — Job 22:21 to 25. 

Riches are primarily a state of mind and not a mat- 
ter of accumulation of money or things. Having a rich 
mind will necessarily be represented by plenty of the 
world's goods, either in possession, or at command; but 
to have millions, and to lack the fertility of mind to place 
them, is to be like the mule that bears rich ore on his back 
out of the mine — he knows only the burden of it and none 
of the richness. 

Men and women of assured income, who have not 
known the interior wealth, have led miserable lives of 
fear, lest thieves should rob them of everything, and some 
have gone insane with the dread of poverty, and spent 
the last days of their earthly existence in hourly expect- 



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ation of being sent to the poor house because of their indi- 
gency. Paupers in mind, they cannot recognize riches 
when they stare them in the face. 

Therefore the wisdom of the great Philosopher of 
Life: Seek first to be rich towards God and let the 
earthly riches follow. For then is the problem taken hold 
of at the right end, at its source, and one escapes the folly 
of so many poor ones who have put the cart before the 
horse, seeking riches first and the spiritual life last. 

Everyone who comes into -the world has a rich aura, 
the gift of his heavenly Father — it is his "living" from the 
Source of all wealth. Most of us seem to have been prod- 
igal sons, letting our rich consciousness be frittered away 
by the delusions of sense, until we find ourselves bound 
to mortality, and far from happiness, heaven, our home. 
But we know that even then, if we only remember and 
"come to ourselves," we can return to the rich conscious- 
ness by keeping our face steadily towards our Father's 
house, that is, "seeking first the kingdom of God and his 
righteousness." 

The rich aura that surrounds and fills each of us, is 
the reflection of the Divine Mind, and it contains all the 
elements of every expression of richness upon the face 
of the whole earth. Its thoughts of goodness are the 
reality of gold; its consciousness of freedom lies back of 
the silver; its purity is the substance of the diamond and 
all its virtues are portrayed in the gems of the earth. Its 
life fructifies the very soil, its beauty and grace determine 
the forms of fruit and flower. Its culture pictures forth 
in the arts of man, according to what development man 
has given himself towards that Rich Mentality. 

As long as man looks outside himself for all the 
causes of his fortune or misfortune, he does not find this 
law of thought and feeling, by which he may be pros- 
pered. In man's attitude towards this Rich Mentality, 
which is in truth his Divine Mind, lies the explanation 
of many an unusual experience in his life. 



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Certain habitual thoughts and feelings towards God 
and the spiritual life have made a man's fields yield more 
richly than his neighbors, although in every other respect 
the soil and the seed were the same. Crops have been 
delivered from pests, and also protected, so that a blight 
or frost or other enemy could not harm them. Illustrat- 
ing this, a story was told the writer by a student, about 
his father, who had a remarkable proof that a "praying 
man" comes under divine protection, even in his fields. 

This gentleman said that his father, Mr. N., was a 
successful farmer in England, who, in raising potatoes, 
had united with a number of his neighbors in leasing a 
long strip of land, dividing it so that every farmer had 
two long rows of potato-hills. They bought seed together, 
ploughed and sowed at the same time. Mr. N. had a 
most practical idea of the presence and power of God in 
a man's affairs, and so while planting his seed, he invoked 
the blessing of the Almighty upon it, for he believed that 
all his prosperity came through remembering God in all 
his ways. 

When the time came to gather the potatoes, the 
farmers found that a potato disease called "dry-rot," 
which appeared that year for the first time in England, 
had attacked every tuber, making almost a total loss to 
each farmer but Mr. N. For when he turned over the 
soil in the two long rows of hillocks, not one potato in the 
whole of his tract had been touched. This made a very 
deep impression upon all the country round, especially as 
Mr. N. ascribed his protection to the goodness of God in 
answering his direct and believing prayers for the yield 
of his field. 

All that one puts his hand to comes into this Divine 
Aura, and if a man consciously, or unconsciously, co- 
operates with it and fulfills its laws, that will take place, 
that is written (Ps. 1:23) "whatsoever he doeth shall 
prosper." 

This Rich Mentality might be compared to a field of 



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rich soil which each one owns. If it seems unyielding as 
to prosperity, then it is not recognized and cultivated. It 
may be like a wilderness, full of weeds, yet yielding a cer- 
tain increase. Such are the fields of the spendthrift, the 
sordid and the care-ridden. Perhaps it is unwatered, like 
the Great American Desert, which has been proven to be 
so fertile when well irrigated. Then ignorance of this 
great law of prosperity is the cause, or a forgetting the 
truth about oneself, one's source and powers. 

The desire in the heart of a man to be self-support- 
ing and independent is because such is the divine inten- 
tion. The revelation of this inner eternal supply estab- 
lishes the consciousness of endless prosperity. "As the 
Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son 
to have life in himself/' John 5 :26. 

Richness circulates through the body of one's affairs, 
as air in the body of flesh. And as, through intelligence 
and power, one controls the breath, so should the welfare 
of our circumstances be subject to our mind. 

A lady in Southern California realized this power 
of control once, to the great advantage of an important 
crop. Her home was in the midst of a large orange grove 
which was then in full bearing, and promising a fine 
revenue that winter, with which they hoped to recuperate 
their fortune, and once more be on their feet. She had 
a neighbor whose financial history had been almost identi- 
cal with her own, for both, with their husbands, had 
invested in adjoining lands, planted and raised orange 
trees, which had already yielded several crops. But the 
neighbor did not believe in the power of mind, but scoffed 
and antagonized so much, that the lady ceased to refer 
to the Truth and its powers in her presence. 

One night a report was carried through the town, 
that they were liable to have a black frost before morn- 
ing, and that every man had better "smudge" and so save 
his orchard. "Smudging" (some may not know), is pro- 
ducing a smoke from specially built fires, thus warming 



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the air and keeping it moving so that the cold air cannot 
bite the tender fruit. Now it so happened that the hus- 
bands of both ladies were away. The neighbor came in 
wringing her hands and crying, "What shall we do! No 
one to help us — we cannot do it alone — our crop will be 
ruined !" 

The lady, Mrs. R., tried to console her but her own 
heart was heavy, and she had little success. After the 
neighbor returned, she walked the floor trying to calm 
herself with Truth, repeating over statements as to the 
allness of good, and the nothingness of evil, in every 
variety of declaration, that came to her. Presently her 
faithfulness was rewarded. She remembered what her 
teacher had said, as to the power of Mind to go forth 
and heal the plants, and she spoke aloud : "God can pro- 
tect my orchard ! The presence of God is there, and even 
now folds it round about, and keeps it from every harm- 
ful thing/' She remembered "there shall no evil come 
nigh thy dwelling"; she recited the 91st Psalm; she re- 
membered the words spoken to Job beginning, "He shall 
deliver thee in six troubles" including "neither shalt thou 
be afraid of destruction" and ending "the beasts of the 
field shall be at peace with thee" (Job 5:19 to 23) and 
she was filled with trust and a mighty consciousness of 
power. An impression came to her of her orchard, being 
covered over, as with a great canvas, and she lay down 
upon her pillow and slept like a child until morning. 

The black frost came, and every orchard, that had 
not been smudged, came woefully under the blight. 
Every orchard but that of Mrs. R. in which not one 
orange w T as touched, although her neighbor's crop was 
a total loss. 

It was a nine-days wonder and many w r ere the con- 
gratulations. She was young in the thought, and told 
no one of her prayers, although her neighbor suspected 
the source of her victory, for she never again scoffed 
at her belief. 



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When discouragement and despondency settle down 
upon a man, or when discord, misunderstanding or bitter- 
ness distract and tear the inner man, his very cattle and 
his other creatures show forth his state of mind in their 
condition. Lift up your mind, get hold of the Spirit, 
throw off those mean feelings as you would shake off the 
flakes of snow before entering a warm room. 

Practice repeating words of cheer and spiritual 
promises, and meditate upon the very opposite thoughts 
to those that drag you down, until there comes an inner 
change. And the longer it takes you, the more should 
be your persistence — the fact of its taking so long shows 
how sadly you needed the practice. Remove the curse 
from that unrented house, by mentally filling it with 
loving, attractive thoughts, changing its atmosphere from 
that deadening, repelling character that people feel, even 
as they approach a place, making them decide against it 
before examining it. Read Isaiah 35 and 11:1 to 9 and 
65 :16 to 25 and give your mind and heart to the fairest 
pictures of concord and harmony that they raise. 

You are not building up this Rich Mentality. It is 
already there in all its fullness and perfection. It is 
your part to uncover it, to co-operate with it, to believe 
in it. Then like the lilies of the field, the law that is 
within you can operate and draw your own to you. 

We perpetually remember that the one who is pros- 
pered by a knowledge of Truth brings prosperity to the 
whole earth, for he draws heaven into the earth, and 
Love is the law of his life, causing him ever to lead his 
fellow-beings to the same law within themselves that he 
has found in himself. 

As vines that are pruned, only bear the better and 
fuller fruits, so let us see all the forms of hardship 
and wrong and failure through which we may have 
passed in former days, but as the times of our pruning, 
and because we are alive let us know that Life to be 
Prosperity itself, the Rich Mentality, containing the 



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greatest fortune that earth has ever known. And now 
is the time and here is the place that we prove ourselves 
the masterful Word of the Almighty, pressing the King- 
dom of Heaven into the earth, until poverty shall be 
known no more, nor any poor, but all shall come to their 
thrones, glorified Sons and Daughters of the Most High. 




Part II 
Six Spiritual Treatments 



EXPLANATORY 



In the following Treatments, the first thing that is 
considered is the right attitude that one should take in 
the home-life, so that the Truth may work in our secret 
thoughts and feelings, when our life seems separated 
from business and we are rot being put to the test in 
strenuous affairs. 

The second consists of a meditation to read, letting 
the ideas sink into the heart, and bring forth original 
observations, of which the student should make notes in 
a convenient note-book. 

The third is the Treatment w T hich is to be read for 
oneself, as though the Inner Voice was uttering the 
words, and our spiritual reason confirming them. 

The Treatments proper always begin with Listen 
to Me! 

Not only read them for yourself, but silently read 
them to others, who are feeling stress in their circum- 
stances. Be orderly in this, and write dow r n the names 
of those whom you are treating, and the times of treat- 
ment. And seek to realize what you are saying to them. 

In giving these treatments to yourself or to others, 
pause w T ith impressive realization at each mark, and if 
the Word is doing its w r ork, there will come a definite 
feeling of power and satisfaction, both to the healer and 
the one being healed. 

Even though this feeling does not come at first, the 
Truth in the words will do the work, often to the sur- 
prise of the young student, whose faith is weak or un- 
developed. 

Remember the virtue there is in Repetition and as 
one progresses more rapidly in learning a language, or 



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acquiring an art, by having the lessons close together 
and the practice constant, so it is in the spiritual acquisi- 
tion of the prospering power. Missionaries give the first 
two years of their noviate — almost all the waking 
hours of each day — to learning the language of those 
whom they have come to save. The human mind seems 
slow. Let us possess ourselves in patience and in due 
time we shall reap. 



VII. 
In the Quiet of the Home 

The real Home of each one of us is Heaven and the 
bitter home-sickness of so many of the race will never 
be healed until Heaven is found within. 

For the longing of men and women for a spot that 
they can call "home" is but a form of spiritual home- 
sickness. And the Student of Truth is wise who will 
not seek the healing of that malady through acquiring 
the outer home, for, without the conscious union with 
Heaven within, they will only acquire burdens with the 
house, that they desire to be their home. 

But by developing the home-realization within, every 
place where they shall relax and spend the quiet hours 
of their lives, will be a happy nest — a sheltering abode — 
drawing others with its home-charm, as well as express- 
ing their own deep, holy peace. 

In the quiet of your abiding place, be it a flat or 
a garret, farm-house or hotel, bungalow or hall-bedroom, 
radiate the richness of your Soul, until the transforma- 
tion of your room, will reveal the achievement of your 
true thoughts. 

Never take the worries of your business into the 
family life. Take your faith there, when you consult 
your loved ones as to your affairs. The only connec- 
tion, that there should be between your business and 
your home, is that of spiritual cheer and an abiding 
scientific optimism. 



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As you stand at your front door say, "Peace be 
unto this house!" And be sure that you never let your 
peace depart from you ! Hold your peace forever ! 

TEEATMENT I.— THE HIGHEOAD OF PEOSPEEITY. 

Meditation. "Come, let us reason together!" God 
is the true source of all the riches in the earth — "The 
silver is mine and the gold is mine, saith the Lord of 
hosts" (Haggai 2:8) and you are the offspring of the 
Most High, heir of all the richness of God and you are 
here to express that richness through this body and in 
this world. 

There is a Highway of Prosperity — the King's High- 
way — the road up the Mountain of supreme success, that 
has an easy grade, where the travel is ever smooth, and 
where they that walk therein know no more worry or 
fear, or strife or hard times, or slavish work or failure. 
They live and let live, and they are consciously secure, 
forever, from all sense of deprivation or lack. 

The uniiistructed follow by-paths in seeking their 
wealth, where there is much stumbling and blindness 
of chance, where burdens pile up, but the travellers never 
reach the heights. All these sidetracks end in gullies and 
pits, for all that is gained must eventually be given up. 
Men enter them as short-cuts to wealth, and though 
some of them cross the real Road, so intoxicated are 
these wanderers, that they know not the Way even when 
their feet press its fair track, long miles at a time. 

The right view of Prosperity as God's own presence, 
not to be refused or despised, but to be seen as the legiti- 
mate expression of the spiritual life, comes to "the man 
whose eyes are open," and he seeks understanding so 
as to think and feel, speak and act according to the 
Law that operates, to make bodies healthy and circum- 
stances wealthy, as one and the same work. The body 



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is wealthy that has health, and the circumstances are 
healthy that have wealth. 



Listen to me! The Highroad of God's Prosperity 
is unlimited wealth, *• riches that are eternal ^ and the 
Life that is endless ease and comfort. ** This blessed 
Road is not far from you ; ^ it is not divided and set 
off from your life ^ or the life of anyone. "* For it is 
the Omnipresence of God.*"* 

Because this Highroad to prosperity is the omni- 
presence of God, ^ you are in it now, ^ you cannot miss 
the Way. ^ Your mind is set right now. *• And mind 
being the cause of all that manifests in your life, ^ its 
right thinking will show forth right conditions in your 
affairs. ** Your Father is rich. ** Your Father has 
"enough and to spare" * and His decree is that you shall 
prosper ** in whatsoever you put your hand to. *• 

Your heritage is boundless wealth *■ and the Wise 
One within you * reveals to you the laws ** by which 
your own comes to you. *• Jesus knew the deep laws of 
Spirit ^ by which he could pay his taxes, ^ furnish the 
finest wines for the feast, ^ and feed multitudes with 
overflowing abundance. ^ You have the same Intelli- 
gence in you, ** for it is the Mind of God * opening up the 
Way of your supply. * 

Now you are on the Highroad to the riches ^ that 
will never fail. * You are coming out of mortality's 
dream. ^ As a mortal you have been rich a thousand 
times in lives gone by. *• What did it profit you ? Noth- 
ing. ^ Now temporal richness is finished. ** Enter into 
the riches ^ "prepared for you from the foundation of 
the world." ** Because you seek the riches of God first, ** 
you must have the other also. ** It is the law. ^ You 
have the Word of Christ for it. *• Being rich towards 
God, ^ rich in loving service to humanity, ** rich in 



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goodness of character, ^ rich in holy wisdom and devo- 
tion to God and His Christ, ** you cannot miss the riches 
of the world. ^ 

God's prosperity flows to you without effort. ^ It 
is the divine gift. * It comes, not by hard work of head 
or hand, *• but by the Spirit. ^ Inspiration leads you 
to your expression of happy usefulness. ^ You find the 
work you love to do, * and it pays. ^ 

Debts are no part of your life. *•• The light of the 
Christ-mind shines on your Way, * and shows you how 
to cancel every debt. *• Spirit keeps your mind at ease. * 
You need never worry. * Worry never does anything. * 
Now you let trust-in-the- Almighty-Good displace all 
anxiety, ^ and give you rest. ^ What is to be ** of God's 
good state and accomplishment, ** is done already. ^ 
Therefore your debts are already paid in the divine 
Mind. * Honor and equity take you out of indebted- 
ness. ^ You are not a debtor, ^ you are a good invest- 
ment. ^ You make rich returns. ^ You are a Bank, 
not a bankrupt. "* The law of the Spirit in Christ Jesus 
makes you free. ** 

Every day brings you fresh inspiration. * Every 
night brings you innocent sleep and righteous rest. ** 

Every experience means the closer communion with 
God. ^ Nothing can daunt you. ** Nothing can dis- 
courage you. ** You touch the Highroad of God's pros- 
perity * and you are wafted along the Way on winged 
feet. ^ Honor and riches are yours, ** and your peace 
no man can take from you * now and forever more. ^ 

IT IS DONE. 



VIII. 
Prosperity Begins at Home 

Every household can prove itself a center for the 
expression of God's prosperity, no matter how small its 
beginnings may be. As a mighty oak is but a spindling 
twig at first, but, through faith in itself, and the loving 
encouragement and protection of nature, becomes the 
tower of strength, that is the admiration of all that behold 
it, so one's spiritual demonstration of prosperity may 
seem a weakling at first. But, if you temper the winds 
of fierce race-suggestions of the reality of poverty, and 
keep your faith steadily centered in the rich God-life 
that dwells within, your prosperity will prove itself an 
established presence, that no fluctuations among the na- 
tions, or untrueness among individuals, can move or 
destroy — your wealth, like your health, will be eternal. 

But let no home work for itself alone, and neglect 
its neighbor. For the joy of demonstrating God's pres- 
ence, in any form, is that that consciousness can be given 
to our world. Sometimes one must consider one's world 
first, in order to come- to one's individual expression of 
prosperity; for there is always a stage, where selfishness 
must pass away, that one may go on into greater power 
and prosperity. 

It may seem that selfishness has given people pros- 
perity, but that manifestation is crossed and recrossed 
with decay and death, and only the spiritually ignorant 
will walk that path. What are millions to you if they 



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cannot save your life, or heal you of blindness, or bring 
you love? Yet thousands are dying, or going into insane 
asylums, or leading a life of sorrow, whom the world 
envy because of their wealth. 

The riches that come through Truth are permanent, 
and are companioned by all the joys of heaven, because 
they are not confined to property and affairs, but are uni- 
versal, and express themselves through every department 
of our being. 

TREATMENT II. RICHES, THE GIFT OF GOD. 

Meditation. The Laws of Spiritual Prosperity are 
the very reverse of the laws of v v <orldly prosperity. In 
divine economy, you do not gain by "saving up for 
rainy days," you do not lose by spending, the more you 
give away the more you have. You do not earn divine 
riches, therefore you do not have to work hard for them, 
either mentally or physically. 

It belongs to your creative consciousness to love 
to work, and by fearlessness concerning supply and sup- 
port, you can gravitate to your congenial work, which will 
be valued highly by the w r orld because art will enter into 
it. "Art is love for one's work." — Elbert Hubbard. 

Time and wages belong to slaves. We come out 
of Egypt by ceasing "to work for a living" in our mind. 
Whatever work you are engaged in now, become an 
artist in it, by putting soul into your service. Educate 
yourself to find divinity in your work and in your asso- 
ciates, whether employer or employees. When you have 
learned your lesson, you will graduate easily into a con- 
genial, because your own, vocation. 

The Spirit knows spirit only, and in its realm there 
is no bargaining, no buying and selling, no wages, no 
hirelings, no laborers, no rewards or punishments, no 
merit or demerit, no deserving, and no unworthy, ones. 



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All is Love, and everything is done for Love, and all 
the fruits of Love are gifts. 

Listen to me! The substance of Prosperity is 
spiritual ^ and it enfolds you and fills you, ^ breath of 
your breath ** and the fullness and perfection of your 
life. ^ This rich substance is a gift to you, ** it came 
with you into the world; ^ you never earned it * and 
so it can never be taken from you. ^ 

Riches are yours ^ whether you deserve it or not. ^ 
You are a Prince with God. *• Princes are rich with- 
out earning their wealth. *• You are heir with Christ, ** 
and all, that the Father hath, is yours. * The silver and 
the gold are mine saith the Lord *• and all that the 
Father hath is mine, saith the Christ. *• 

Your Good takes care of you. *• As you were 
nourished and protected from the beginning, so now. ^ 
You came with a world of wealth. ^ Now by the power 
of God within you, ** you draw it into manifestation. ^ 

You lay up riches in your heart. ** God gives you 
Trust in place of worriment. * God gives you Faith in 
place of fear. ^ God gives you Forgiveness to take 
the place of bitterness. * God gives you Inspiration 
and takes away plodding. ^ God gives you Insight 
instead of scheming. ^ God gives you Interest-in-your- 
neighbor in place of selfishness. ** God gives you Honest 
Ways to replace all trickery. ** 

You rise above the plane, and law, of cause and 
effect. ** You dismiss from your mind all sense of 
injury. ^ Mortal man is nothing to you. *• Wrong- 
doing on his part cannot make you suffer. *• The Spirit 
rights all wrongs. ** You do the right thing by your 
fellow-man. ^ No one's curse or hatred can keep you 
from your own. * You look not to man ^ for your 
support. ** God is your sufficiency *• and the source of 



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all your riches. *■ God is for you * what can man do 
against you? ^ 

You live in a world of freedom ** and you give 
everybody and everything freedom. ** You give money 
freedom. * You do not clutch money. ^ You let go 
and trust. ** "Stand still and see the salvation of the 
Lord!" * 

You go to your happiest work. ** By the Spirit 
within, you find your place. ** Your Genius goes before 
you ** and makes channels to express itself. ^ 

Angels of prosperity surround you. ** Angels of 
prosperity work for you. ** Everything you put your 
hand to, prospers. ** 

You are now opening the Way, *• by which your 
riches can take tangible forms in your world. ^ 

Prosperity seeks you, * and must find you. ** You 
are in its Way ** and it cannot miss you. ** 

You bear witness to the presence of prosperity, ^ 
by your carriage, *• you hold your head up; ^ by your 
poise, ** your back is not bowed ; by your courage *• you 
put your best foot forward. ^ 

You are in the Current of Prosperity. ** All things 
in your affairs move smoothly, with the Current. ** And 
your heart is at rest, *• for your prosperity is sure. ^ 

ABIDE IN PEACE. 



IX. 
The Home Refurnished 

The home is the bulwark of the nation, and any- 
thing that builds up the home and contributes to its 
ideals, strengthens the race, both within and without. 
For the home is also the place to picture forth heaven, 
and often it is the training-school for wild, crude mor- 
tality wherein it learns the joys of peace, order and 
loving service, a preparation for heaven here on the earth. 

Each home that is consecrated to this ministry of 
the Christ message and healing, becomes an example of 
purity and harmony to those seeking heaven on the 
earth. Perhaps your ministry cannot yet be an open 
one, but it can do a silent work by its hospitality, com- 
fort, restfulness and love. The very walls can sing of 
goodness and truth. The common furniture can caress 
us, the homely fare can give us sweetest satisfaction. 

Fill your home with blessing. Remove every sug- 
gestion of discontent. If there is a room that savours of 
selfishness, or of impurity, or of deadness, in its mental 
atmosphere, heal it. You can do it by a half-hour of 
silence in it each day, in which you meditate upon the 
omnipresence of heaven, declaring for some special ex- 
pression of heaven, centering there. 

The richness of your spirit must enter the place 
where you reside, even though it be a cellar or a hall 
bed-room, and permeate it. The ease and comfort of a 
rich consciousness must radiate from your personality. 



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For riches draw riches, and prosperity gravitates to the 
things and the people that are like it, especially when 
backed by principle. There are people who look pros- 
perous, and yet, are undermining themselves by a false 
state of mind; and there are people who are rich but do 
not look prosperous, and they are missing some of the 
good things that belong to them. 

The kingdom of heaven appears, when there is a 
perfect harmony and unity between the without and the 
within. 

In proving God to be the health of your circum- 
stances, see to it that your home does not contradict 
your faith. There is a great law fulfilled in "putting 
one's best foot forward." Business men know that it is 
a good investment, for the later success of their projects, 
to have a good office, well furnished. The habit of be- 
ginning with poor equipment makes new enterprises long 
and slow in reaching success. 

When an instrument is tuned too low — like a harp, 
violin or guitar — then one string is raised to a proper 
pitch and the rest keyed up to it. Sometimes one can 
raise the whole vibration of a house, and the household, 
by introducing some rich, up-to-date feature, and then 
keying all the rest of the establishment up to that vibra- 
tion, even though many days go by before it is finished. 

Act wealthy, talk prosperously. Be a free avenue 
through which riches may pass to all. The world needs 
to learn the spiritual science of wealth, and your home 
can be a class room. 

TREATMENT III. BLESS, PRAISE, GIVE THANKS. 

Meditation. There is no greater prospering power 
than the word of Blessing, of genuine praise and of 
thanks from the heart — especially towards those people, 
and about those things and events, that have seemed to 
curse us. 

As these utterances must not be merely from the 



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lips, it will require skill, discernment, inspiration and 
a prophetic sense to find that, which one can praise in 
our enemies, be thankful for in misfortune and bless in 
treachery. And the very exercise itself will enrich one, 
like the sons, in the fable, of the wise old father, -who 
had four lazy sons, and in dying, told them that he had 
nothing to leave them but a field. But in that field was 
buried a treasure. So when he died they vigorously dug 
up that field. But they found no treasure. The next 
crops, however, that grew in that ground yielded four 
times the ordinary crop, and then the sons knew that 
the treasure in the field was what they had put into it — 
their own energy and faith. 

Practice skill and discernment in finding the good 
in the people who have injured you, and the failures 
that have burdened you. Let the Spirit inspire your 
thanksgiving and open your prophetic sense, to see the 
blessing that is coming out of it all. The exercise is 
enriching, both spiritually and materially. 



Listen to the Divine Voice within you. ^ It guides 
you. It cheers you. *• It shows you the Way of righteous- 
ness ^ and eternal prosperity. ** 

The divine approval overshadows you *• and pro- 
tects you. ^ Your heavenly Father awaits lovingly your 
return ^ to the spiritual life and its ways ^ and runs to 
meet you, saying, ** Thou art my beloved *■ in whom I 
am well-pleased. ** 

"The blessing of the Lord * it maketh rich." * The 
Lord in you ** blesses your whole world ^ and the act 
enriches you. ** You give your heart and mind *• to 
blessing everybody and everything. *■ 

You bless them that curse you. *• You do good to 
them that hate you. *• You know no rivals. *• You 
have no competition. * All that is done against you, 
helps you. ** 



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Your destiny is to know * the secret of prosperity. * 
You cannot fail. * Your success is decreed * from the 
foundation of the world. ** 

The Spirit opens your eyes ** to see the Way of it. * 
There is a straight line * between you and the next suc- 
cessful step, ** and you go forward upon it. ** 

Fear passes utterly away. * You are calm and 
trusting. *• Your confidence inspires confidence. * 

You lay up treasures in heaven. * You do good 
and forget it. * You give freely your tenth — your tithe.** 
And you reap an hundred fold. * "Bring ye all the 
tithes into the storehouse * that there may be meat [sub- 
stance] in mine house, * and prove me now, herewith * 
saith the Lord of hosts * if I will not open you the 
windows of heaven * and pour you out a blessing, * 
that there shall not be room enough to receive it." * 

No anger can undermine you. * No envy can cor- 
rode your affairs. * No selfishness can rust you. * No 
greed can overload you. * You are God's free instru- 
ment of distribution. * 

Riches flow to you * and through you to bless all 
the world. * You freely receive and you freely give. * 
No foolish accumulation burdens you. * No loss dis- 
turbs you. ^ 

You bring faith into the storehouse of Plenty. * 
You bring love into the storehouse of Opulence. * You 
bring knowledge into the storehouse of Abundance. * 
You bring goodness into the storehouse of all your Pros- 
perity. * And they return to you in all the world's 
forms of wealth * unlimited, unceasing, full, perfect and 
free. "* 

REST IN DIVINE BOUNTY. 



Our Unlimited Capacity 

Contentment is one of the richest jewels that a home 
can have, and when its foundation is knowledge of Truth, 
it abides forever, and becomes a powerful magnet, to 
draw to itself the best in people and in things. 

When contentment is mated with poverty, there is 
usually some false reason at the root of the matter. Some- 
times it is a yielding to circumstances as inevitable — a 
kind of fatalism, but oftener it takes its rise from the 
religious, training, especially the doctrine that Christianity 
and pdverty are logical associates, and that the Greatest 
of all the Christians, himself, was poor, having "no place 
to lay his head." 

We know now that we cannot call Jesus Christ 
poor, any more than we can think of the king of Eng- 
land as poor, simply because he has no money in his 
pocket. Jesus had command of forces, that could have 
made him a Croesus in a moment, but he would not be 
cumbered with property. 

If one chooses to go without, all right. But to be 
forced to go without, and even to be in debt, is not a 
free state and therefore not true Christianity. For has 
not the Christ said, "Ye shall know the Truth and the 
Truth shall make you free?" 

The old preaching from the pulpit, that one cannot 
expect to be rich in this life, was often from a certain 
text, as a favorite quotation from which to expound these 
views. It is found in Hebrews 13 :5, and according to 



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the old King James Version, it reads: "And be ye 
content with such things as ye have." But according to 
a learned prelate of the Church of England, the transla- 
tion should read: "Be ye conscious, that ye have con- 
tained within yourselves all capacity," which version is 
more in keeping with the context, "For he hath said, I 
will never leave thee nor forsake thee, so that we may 
boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear 
what man shall do unto me." 

"Contentment," "contain" and "contents" are all of 
the same family of words. Our true Contentment is 
ability to contain all the blessings that the good God 
shall pour out upon us. 

The story of Elisha's increasing the widow's pot of 
oil, is illustrative of the point that Paul was teaching, 
concerning our capacity. There was a widow, who ap- 
pealed to Elisha to save her two sons from being sold 
for debt, that is, becoming slaves in order to pay a debt. 
Elisha asked her what she had in the house, and she 
answered "Nothing but a pot of oil." Then he told her 
to go and borrow all the vessels she could from her neigh- 
bors. "Borrow not a few," was his instruction. And then 
she was to pour oil from that little pot of oil, until all 
were filled. She procured all that she could, and the 
oil increased until the last vessel was full, and then "the 
oil stayed." "Then she came and told the man of God. 
And he said, Go, sell the oil, and pay thy debt and live 
thou and thy children of the rest." 

Here was an instance of a woman, enriched by the 
law of God, to the exent of her receptive capacity, which 
was limited. Paul reminds us that our capacity is un- 
limited, and we must be conscious of it. 

Let us practice removing every limitation, which we 
have been prone to put upon ourselves, either as to re- 
ceiving or disbursing. We do not need to depend upon 
our neighbors for our increase, the Lord within us is our 
support, who shall limit us? 



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TREATMENT IV. "MY CUP RUNNETH OVER." 

Meditation. In the temporal prosperity which comes 
from worldly methods, it is considered good judgment 
to gauge the amount of one's spending by the extent of 
one's income ; and that is good sense, when one has a 
material basis of prosperity. 

But the spiritual law is stated, "With what measure 
ye mete, it shall be measured unto you." "Give, and it 
shall be given unto you." In other words, learn to spend. 
Not recklessly, nor in a meaningless way, but with the 
wisdom of one who is being educated to disseminate 
riches like seed, breaking down fear and sense of limita- 
tion, and cultivating faith and consciousness of the all- 
capacity in one. 

To illustrate, one may start out to buy a garment 
for $20, but finds one just suitable for $25. In the 
old way of thinking the extra $5 would debar that gar- 
ment from one, although the money might lie in the 
purse. If then, from trust in the Divine Bounty, the 
extra amount is paid, the purchaser will not be lacking 
in that sum of $5, but on the contrary, will have entered 
into a new current of receptivity, and, if alert, will be 
able to see the unexpected increase, when it comes, in 
obedience to the great law. 

When one intends to make a gift of money, accord- 
ing to a certain amount, and then mentally lessens it, 
he is lessening his own receiving capacity. A homely 
illustration of this law is the good milch cow, that, as 
long as all she has to give is taken from her, keeps up 
her capacity of receiving, but if her milker, in a foolish 
moment, should think to save her by not stripping her 
milk, she w^ould give him that much less next time, 
even though he milked her dry. 

Practice distributing freely because of trust in your 
unlimited Source of Supply. 



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Listen to me! You have the capacity to receive all 
riches *■ and you disburse them *• by inspiration and 
wisdom. ^ It is nothing to you how mortals feel about 
the times. ** You are not under the law of limitation. ** 
The income and the outgo are perfectly balanced. *• 
The more comes in, ** the more you spend *• and the 
more you spend *• the more comes in. ^ The more you 
spend the more comes in. ^ 

You gauge your own capacity. ^ No one can limit 
you. ** You enlarge your horizon of expenditure.* ** 

The best is none too good for you. ** You are a 
prince with God. ** Our Father is rich. ** His chil- 
dren are a credit to his bounty. ** 

You find no fault. ^ You make no complaint. ^ 
You never whine. ** You blame no one. ** You are 
not a beggar. * You are not a dependent. ^ You are 
cheery and free. *• You are courageous. ^ You are a 
magnet to draw your own. ^ No one loses, who gives 
to you. ^ Everyone gains by prospering you. ** And 
they know it. * And they know it. ** 

You live in the realm of Love, ** where giving 
freely,^ and receiving graciously, ** is the law. ^ 

The commercial belief cannot influence you; ^ it 
cannot use you or bind you. ** You do your best at 
all times. *• You give yourself to the Divinity in all. ^ 
Your work calls forth rich appreciation, ^ which takes 
form as money, * and the things the world values. ** 

Make channels for your divine prosperity. ^ Make 
channels for Love ^ to express itself through you. * 
Love and eternal prosperity are one * and they are yours 
now. ^ 



* Where others give pennies, you give nickels; where others 
give nickels, you give quarters; where others give quarters, you 
give dollars. 



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"Make channels for the streams of Love, 
Where they may broadly run ; 

And Love has overflowing streams, 
To fill them every one. 

For we must share, if we would keep 

That blessing from above. 
Ceasing to give, we cease to have, 

Such is the law of Love." 



XL 
The Age of Miracles Still Here 

Magical laws are to be found in the realm of spiritual 
prosperity, and when their operations are not viewed 
with superstition, or as miraculous, in the sense of doing 
violence to natural law, they will.be more frequently 
seen. Moses received and" understood these laws, both 
from his Egyptian tutors, the soothsayers and magicians 
of Pharaoh, and from his spiritual Instructor, great 
Jehovah. 

It is for us to prove that our supply is not fixed by 
the Rule of Three, but, there is a living principle back 
of our silver and our gold, that is one with God, and 
to touch it, is to open a way by which our material 
supply will increase, as seeds will sprout if the right 
elements are brought to them. 

In the booklet, The Quiet Hour, by S. D. Gordon, 
published by Fleming H. Revell Co., New York City, 
there is a story of miraculous increase, of which the 
following is a condensed account. It is called 

th£ Finnish gold story. 
"It was a winter's night up in Stockholm. The 
evening meeting was over, and a number of Christian 
friends were gathered about the supper table. We were 
talking as we ate, of our experiences of God's goodness. 
One lady present was induced to tell through interpreta- 
tion, a story of the unusual experience of a friend of hers 
in Finland. 



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It was about a woman who had to pay an unjust 
bill for lumber used in building a little chapel. She 
hadn't money enough; all efforts to get more failed; 
legal action threatened; then during prayer the money 
in her little treasure box increased in amount until there 
was enough to pay the claim. That is the bones of the 
story. 

It quite startled every one who heard it. Such a 
thing was unheard of in modern times. And doubt was 
freely expressed by some of the most earnest and thought- 
ful ones present. The doubt was not of God's power to 
do such a thing, but of the accuracy of the story. The 
woman in her excitement must have made a mistake. 
Some friend was secretly helping, it was thought. Was 
she used to counting money? Was the box locked up 
so that no one else could get access to it? She was 
probably a good woman, but rather excitable. So ques- 
tion and comment ran. 

As I listened to the story, then to the comments, I 
though that if it were true — and our friend who told it 
to us, and who personally knew the woman in it, seemed 
quite assured herself of its being so — it should not be 
told until it could be thoroughly verified, but that if it 
could indeed be verified, it should be told, and told 
widely." 

Here the author tells of how he and his wife prayed, 
that, if the story were true, they might be led to Fin- 
land and meet the woman and speak in the little chapel. 
It is exceedingly interesting to read of how the Spirit 
opened the way, so that they went to the village and 
were with the woman two days, having an excellent 
interpreter, who also came in answer to prayer. 

The woman is the postmistress of the village, or 
rather railroad junction, a very important post which 
she has occupied over twenty years. It is a position of 
great responsibility, as there are no banks in Finland 



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and much money passes through the mails. Something 
like S800,000 passed through her hands some years. 

''Her books were as carefully kept as any bank 
account books I have ever examined in my earlier bank- 
ing days ; not only with painstaking accuracy, but with 
neatness of a skilled accountant. This seems sufficient 
answer to the comments I heard when the story was told 
in Stockholm." 

There was need of a chapel, and the woman, a 
quiet, unassuming body, undertook to lead and be re- 
sponsible for its building. Free-will offerings consti- 
tuted the supply. While the building was going on, 
there came a bill for lumber, which had been bought and 
received. But the charge was larger than it should have 
been. With the bill came a peremptory demand for 
immediate payment of the money, $150, threatening legal 
proceedings. It is customary in Finland to provide long 
credit, and the chapel funds were not equal to that pay- 
ment. The people were poor, and there had been much 
opposition on the part of the Church people to the chapel 
being built. 

She made every effort to get the money, but it was 
all fruitless. The final time of payment drew near. She 
made one last journey to a near-by town. ''The man 
she hoped to see was abroad ; his wife thought she ought 
not to have begun building till she had the money." 

On her way back, as she was in prayer, a thought 
came to her that had been coming, more or less, all 
through this trial. It was of how Jesus increased the 
loaves and fishes. She thought, ''God can touch my 
slender chapel funds and do as in the desert, make them 
sufficient for the need.'' 

"On her return home, as soon as she could get time 
from her work, she went to the drawer to get the little 
box where the chapel funds were kept. She had counted 
the money before that last journey and she found she 
had just S70 ( 350 marks in Finnish money)." She had 



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$18 of her own. She was all alone, and she poured the 
money on the table and put her own meager store with 
it, and covering it with her hands, prayed in simple child- 
like language: 

"Lord Jesus bless Thy money as Thou dist bless 
the loaves in the wilderness. I will put my loaves too 
in Thy hands, and do Thou let them, with Thine, meet 
this need; let this money cover the amount of this bill." 

Then she counted the money, and it was exactly 
751 marks ($150) and she noticed there was now much 
gold, though there had not been much gold in the box. 

She sent word to the collector that he could come 
for the money. Before he arrived she again spread the 
money out to count it, this time feeling an impulse to 
take out her own little store of 90 marks ($18) and 
the remainder amounted again to the 751 marks ($150). 
With a heart overflowing with thanksgiving she aw r aited 
the collector. 

When he came she told him her wonderful experi- 
ence, and he was much moved. As the money was 
counted again before him, there were a few silver coins 
over, and the bill was duly paid, and the officer gave her 
the receipt. 

The author goes into many details, to show T the un- 
mistakable character of the wonder-work, and gives it 
as a message from the prayer-answ T ering God. 

The law that was fulfilled in this increase, can be 
known with the same exactness, with which we under- 
stand the laws of the telephone ; and scientific men are 
preparing to study these laws, with the same zeal and 
profound passion of the devoted astronomers, who have 
sought out, and found the laws of the planets. 

TREATMENT V. GODLINESS. THE SUBSTANCE OF RICHES 

Meditation. "He shall be like a tree planted by the 
rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his sea- 



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son; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatosever he 
doeth shall prosper'' (Ps. 1:3). Thus is the godly man 
described as to his good fortune. 

There are certain of us, who did not come into this 
existence "with a silver spoon in our mouths." It seems 
to us, that all our goodness has been fruitless, that fate 
is against us, and that there is no use trying. 

If we have started this life like bankrupt men, then 
there must be the more resolution and determination, and 
a courage that knows no defeat. 

The law of Christ, like the laws of bankruptcy, re- 
moves the past burdens and debts that destiny (or karma) 
may have loaded upon our infant shoulders. No matter 
what bad luck may have seemed to be ours from birth, 
this day we come under the law of our Christ-self, and 
believe in the God-promise that our Goodness shall take 
tangible form, here and now. 

Exercise a patience, that is one with Absolute Trust, 
and never, even in the secret of your own chamber, ac- 
knowledge the slowness or the failure, as real or lasting. 

The treasures that you have laid up in heaven — 
the within — are destined to take form as the treasures 
of earth. With most people, they do not appear until 
another incarnation, when they are said "to be born with 
a silver spoon in their mouth/' You do not need to 
wait for another incarnation, but your goodness of today 
can be expressed here and now, in this incarnation, as 
overflowing plenteousness of the world's goods. 

Listen to me, 0! Offspring of pure Goodness! ** 
You know how to bring forth into this world all the 
goodness there is in you. * The Spirit instructs you * 
in what ways to express your Love. ** It takes universal 
form, overflowing to all. ** Your magnetic quality is 
irresistible. ^ Humanity loves to bask in the sunshine 



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of your presence. ** Its value is high. ** There is a 
market for it everywhere. ** 

Your Goodness overflows in generous service to all. 9 * 
Your Goodness draws forth Goodness. ** Your talent is 
uncovered and appreciated with financial expressions. ** 
Your ingenuity and power of invention come to the fore. 9 * 
You are invaluable to humanity. ** 

Your Goodness makes others feel good. ** Your 
generosity makes others generous. ** You are a seed in 
the soil of Richness, ** drawing whatever prospers you, 
to yourself. ** You flourish like the lilies of the field ** 
without care or fear, ** without anxiety or hard work. 9 * 
You are a law unto yourself. *• You are independent of 
man-made laws, ** of personalities, of corporations and of 
systems. ** These serve you and bless you, but cannot 
enslave you. ** You look to One only as the source of 
your Prosperity. ** 

You are self-made, ** made by the One Self — Creator 
of all. ** You are not vain-glorious, ** no mortal pride 
can trip you up ** no mistake of the past can keep you 
down. ** No foolish pride can keep you from your own. ** 
You have Self-respect, not pride ** and you hold your 
head up, ** and keep your back straight, *• and your step 
firm. ** 

Nothing can discourage you. ^ The wrong-doings 
of others cannot make you bitter. ** The successes of 
others cannot make you envious. ** You radiate the 
Goodness of God. ** 

You are an ever-flow 7 ing fountain of resourceful- 
ness. ** You are in connection with the Fountain-Head 
on High. ^ You are the power of God, ^ to translate 
divine, invisible substance, ** into tangible, visible forms. 9 * 

Your faith is unlimited ^* because it is based on 
reason and knowledge. 9 * You can do all things by the 
God-power in you. ** Divine Wisdom guides you, ** you 
are kept from folly. ** You do not waste yourself, your 



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time, your substance or your life. * Good judgment at- 
tends you ever. *• Divine Intelligence keeps you from * 
foolish ways and foolish things. ** Inspiration lifts you 
out of all entanglements *• and sets your feet firm in Wis- 
dom's Ways. 

Your gentle goodness cannot be preyed upon. ^ It 
is one with the Lamb of God ** and no wolf of commer- 
cial greed can seize you. *■ The folly of others cannot 
deceive you. ** Deceitful words and deeds cannot move 
you. * You cannot be ensnared by greed or ignorance. ^ 
No one's craftiness can beguile you. ** You are true to 
yourself, and your trueness defends you. *• 

The Goodness of God fills your whole life. ** Good- 
ness fills and covers all that is yours. ^ All that you put 
your hand to, prospers. ^ All that you touch turns to 
riches. *• Surely goodness and mercy shall follow you ^ 
all the days of your life *■ and you shall dwell * in the 
house of the Lord forever. *• 

IT IS ESTABLISHED. 



XII. 
Jesus Christ in the Business Man 

On the matter of business, Jesus Christ gave many- 
directions and much teaching. For Jesus Christ was 
very practical, coming to a people that were masters of 
finance, many of them, yet missing the main thing; and, 
on the other hand, eagerly zealous in righteousness and 
good works, but making a failure financially. He taught 
the Way that is One, for both these extremes. 

He knew there was but one business for everybody, 
who had come to this earth — his heavenly Father's busi- 
ness, i. e., to bear witness to the Truth, prove oneself im- 
mortal and divine, and make heaven on earth for one's 
neighbor. He made his disciples successful fishermen, 
and then said, "Come, I will make you fishers of men." 
So now, Jesus Christ in you will make you a success 
where you are, and at the same time call you to gather 
men and women into the Kingdom. 

"I will make you builders of men's character and 
health and happiness," he says to the carpenters and con- 
tractors and others who are constructing. 

"I will make you promoters of men's spiritual na- 
ture," he says to those who are developing business, and 
earth's products. 

"I will make you feeders of men's souls, and cloth- 
iers that bring forth bodies worthy of God ; s children." 

"I will make you bankers of men, laying up saved 
men as gold." 



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What greater work can be done for the Kingdom of 
Heaven, than making a success in the business life, and 
proving to men that you did it by the power of the Holy 
Spirit within you! 

You cannot serve God and mammon at the same 
time. You have proven it. You cannot give your whole 
heart to mammon. You have a Conscience that no man 
can kill, either in you, or in himself. He may drug it 
with sophistries for years, and even think he has no Con- 
science; but he will find his mistake. For Conscience is 
simply one's knowing, the exercise of one's Supreme In- 
telligence, and it will not down. It is immortal. 

People grow rich with a quasi worship of mammon. 
They do unscrupulous things for a long time, and 
think they can bluff their great Soul-Self. But they only 
fool themselves. Their wealth is as sand and ashes in 
their mouth. Something has been missed. 

Better to be a lamb, thrown from one wolf's maw to 
another, imposed upon, fleeced again and again, than to 
win riches at the expense of that tender, holy, rich love- 
nature, that eventuates in the Eternal Joy which is inde- 
pendent of time and space. 

But it is possible to keep the Lamb-quality, and re- 
ceive all the powers and substance that are now owned 
and exploited by the wolves. Jesus Christ has given the 
Way and by the Holy Spirit, one may gather together all 
his teachings about prosperity, and the records of his 
deeds, which especially relate to the way to succeed, and 
use this masterly key into the Kingdom of Eternal 
Wealth. 

Jesus did not despise either money or business. He 
appointed a treasurer for the disciples, in Judas. He 
taught them to "gather up the fragments that remain, 
that nothing be lost," he taught them not to be slack. 

But he inculcated a new value sense. He told the 
money-loving Pharisees, that " that which is highly es- 



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teemed among men is abomination in the sight of God." 
"For what is a man advantaged if he gain the whole 
world and lose himself?" he said. Like another Alex- 
ander, who at the age of thirty had conquered the whole 
world, and yet died in a drunken bout. 

He paid tribute to Caesar and to the synagogue, 
using occult laws by which to procure the money. 

But the plainest teaching of all was when, on two 
occasions, he directed his disciples, who had been toiling 
all night at their fisheries without success, just where to 
drop their nets, so as to make hauls that would soon, if 
repeated a few times, make a man rich. 

Jesus did not hesitate to use his deeper senses to pro- 
mote earthly prosperity. He had the true business sense, 
which comes by the Holy Spirit. And this Master stands 
in your heart today, and if you will hear his Voice and 
be guided by his principles, you shall be the fulfillment of 
the great promises : "Delight thyself in the Lord ; and 
he shall give thee the desires of thine heart," "they that 
seek the Lord shall not want any good thing." 



TREATMENT VI. CHRIST IN ME, MY PROSPERING POWER 

Listen to me! The Christ in you is your clear in- 
sight, ^ your true business sense, *■ and your inspired 
guidance into success. ^ 

You are in business to save the world. *■ Your in- 
tegrity pervades your whole world. ** It directs your vis- 
ion to the region of richness. *• Jesus Christ in you su- 
perintends * all your investments, affairs and dealings. * 

You work for the Kingdom of God alone. *• This 
is your first concern. *• You are enthusiastic in your Way 
of working. ** The Holy Spirit infuses you with a new 
imagination about your affairs. ^ You are initiative. ** 
You are original. *• You find new ways to serve human- 



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ity. ** You discover the wealth producing regions of the 
earth. *• You uncover the most valuable powers in human 
beings. ** 

You save other men in their business. * By the 
Christ in you, you point out the Way they can be pros- 
pered. ** You give freely any counsel or discovery that 
will prosper others. * No commercialism can interfere 
with your inspiration. *• The Spirit protects you from 
greed and imposition. * 

Jesus Christ in you reveals the errors to be removed,** 
that you may be receptive to all wealth. * You put your 
hand to the Christ-plough, *■ and you do not look back. ^ 
You banish all memory of losses. * You do not meditate 
upon losses of any kind. ^ You spend no time in griev- 
ing. * You deliberately forget all mistakes — your own * 
as well as others'. ^ You give all appearances of weak- 
ness, poor judgment, vices, ignorance, folly and ill-luck 
into the care of the Holy Spirit. *• 

You practice the presence of God. ** You remem- 
ber to meditate upon the godlike thing to do. ^ You do 
what Jesus Christ would do. 5i You are Jesus Christ in 
the business world. * You preach the good news of the 
Way to prosper forever. * You preach silently, by your 
life, by your methods, by your character. ^ 

The Inspired One in you uncovers the Secret laws 
of increase and transmutation. ^ You have the holy 
Divining- Art. *• You know the way to find gold in the 
bowels of the earth. *• You know the place of the water- 
springs. *• The elements yield you their secrets. * You 
are the irresistible conqueror of the planet. * Everything 
yields you its best, by the Law of Love. ^ You are the 
Lover of All, ** and draw to you all the gifts of Love. ** 

You sit still in the Christ-consciousness * and all the 
ends of the earth seek you * to serve you and bless you. ** 
You are at peace with all ^ and the satisfaction of the 
Richest Being in the universe ** centers in you and showers 
blessings through you *• upon the whole world. * 



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Serene I fold my hands and wait, 
Nor care for wind, or tide, or sea; 

I rave no more 'gainst time or fate, 
For lo ! my own shall come to me. 

The waters know their own, and draw 
The brook that springs in yonder height ; 

So flows the good, with equal law 
Unto the soul of pure delight. 

The stars come nightly to the sky, 

The tidal wave unto the sea; 
Nor time, nor space, nor deep, nor high, 

Can keep my own away from me. 




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